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A photograph of a seated audience at a satsang gathering, with women in traditional saris. In the foreground a young woman in a blue blouse and mustard-yellow saree sits on the left, with mehndi on her hands. Beside her a woman in an orange saree holds a toddler in a purple and green embroidered dress up in her arms; the child gazes forward and smiles. Other women in orange and saffron attire sit in rows behind them. No speaker or guru figure is visible in the frame, and no identifiable depiction of a person appears.

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