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Outdoor gathering of seated devotees in saffron and orange robes on white cloth, several wearing orange turbans or head wraps. A bearded elderly sannyasi with white beard and glasses sits center, wearing an orange robe and orange turban with a red bindi, hands resting on his knees. Beside him a young man in a pink turban and orange robe sits with his hand near his face, and in front a man in orange robes with a pink shawl over his head wears a rudraksha mala. On the right a smiling bearded man in a yellow-orange shawl sits among the crowd. A water bottle and small food plates sit on a cloth in the lower left. A blue bird logo appears in the upper left corner.

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