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A photograph of a darshan moment during a Nithya Dhyan Yoga convention session. A woman with dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark red garment and a rudraksha mala around her neck, leans forward and places her right hand on the forehead of an older man in a white short-sleeved shirt, his hands pressed together in namaskar. Her face bears a white tilak and she smiles. Behind them, an older woman with white hair and a woman in orange robes stand watching, and a woman in a pink and red sari stands at right. Greenery and a wooden pillar frame the setting. Appearance-based label: the woman giving blessings has a tilak and rudraksha cues, but identity is uncertain.

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