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A screen-capture style graphic in a video conference grid showing several remote satsang sessions, each labeled with a location banner. Top-left panel labeled LONDON KASHI shows two people seated on a sofa, one bald man in a dark shawl and a woman with dark hair. Top-right panel labeled KUALA LUMPUR PALANI shows a shrine with a deity murti under an arched canopy, and several people seated on blue mats in orange and white clothing, one in orange robes with a rudraksha mala. Bottom-left panel labeled High Point NC shows women in a living room. Bottom-right panel labeled HONGKONG-SIRKAZHI shows a green-walled room with a framed portrait and a small shrine with a yellow cloth. The panels show remote participants, not physical people in one room.

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November 29 20112011-11-29A graphic collage of nine video-call panels showing devotees joining a satsang or darshan session. Each panel is labelled with a location caption: London Kashi, Oklahoma Somanatham, Slovakia Shivaloka, Kuala Lumpur Palani, Coimbatore, High Point NC, Hongkong-Sirkazhi and Jorpati Nepal. Panels show seated participants in white and orange clothing, some with garlands, in front of altars with deity murtis and framed pictures, one with a kalasha-like arrangement. Several people press palms together in namaskar.2014-10-12February 10 20152015-02-10A multi-panel collage of video-call screens shown on a dark display, labelled by location. Top-left shows a woman seated on a sofa; top-right shows a home room with several people in white and orange clothing seated on a floor, one holding a bowl. Middle-left, labelled "High Point NC", shows a devotee in red and white at a small altar with a red and pink mat. Middle-right shows people in white clothes gathered in a home interior. Bottom-left shows several people in white standing in a room with a staircase. Bottom-right, labelled "DALLAS DWARAKA", shows a large deity murti or picture behind men in white seated on a floor mat. Panels show remote devotees, not a single gathering.2014-08-16A large screen shows a grid of video-call tiles for a satsang, with labelled windows reading Malaysia Palani, Toronto Kailasam, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Los Angeles Arunachala, San Jose Madurai, Ohio Center and Seattle Chidambaram. Tiles show people seated on mats performing puja with oil lamps, a brass thali, flowers and kalasha-like vessels, and a man in white and orange seated before a red-draped altar. In the bottom-right tile a man with long hair, saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits before a gold-decorated backdrop, the screen content being the satsang broadcast. The photograph is of the screen, so the people on it are not physically present.2013-04-09A large wall screen shows a video-conference grid of about fifteen tiles, each a remote satsang location labelled with city names such as Kuala Lumpur Palani Adheenam, Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam, St. Louis Tirumala Adheenam, Toronto Thirumalai Adheenam, San Jose Madurai, Melbourne Tiruvarur, Oman Sivagangai and Redmond USA. Tiles show people seated on rugs, on a peetha and in ashram rooms, some in saffron and maroon robes, one in a white shirt wearing a headset, and a central figure in a red-and-white outfit seated before a green backdrop. Shrines with deity murtis appear in several tiles. Attendees are seen only through the screen.2015-02-24A large screen displays a video-conference grid of many live feeds from different centres, each labelled with a place name such as Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Oklahoma Somnatham, San Jose Madurai, Sharjah, Ohio Prayag, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, Singapore Sivaganga and Los Angeles Ayuda Nagaram. Inside the panels, people sit on mats around decorated puja tables with offerings, flowers and oil lamps, some in saffron and red clothing, while others stand or sit in a satsang-style gathering. A small framed portrait on one panel shows a smiling saffron-robed figure, identified only by its caption.2013-05-03April 06 20132013-04-06April 13 20132013-04-13January 31 20152015-01-31May 08 20132013-05-08February 07 20152015-02-07 +1 copies