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A group of devotees stands with palms pressed together in prayer inside a temple hall with gold curtains and a red-patterned carpet. Along the back wall stand several deity murti, including figures in ornate crowns and bright garments. In the foreground a young man in a green jacket and a man in a maroon shirt with a rudraksha-style mala stand with hands folded. Women in saris of yellow, green, pink and blue join them, and a woman in a white and gold dhoti-style sari stands beside a black lingam with a garland and a brass pot. The scene reads as puja or darshan, and no clearly identifiable Swamiji figure is visible.

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