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A large seated audience fills a tent-like hall with gathered cream and white draped curtains at the back. Many devotees in white and pastel saris and white shirts sit cross-legged on green mats, hands pressed together in namaskar and some with eyes closed. At the far back, a small group of men in white stands near a pair of framed portraits on a stand, one showing a figure in orange and gold. A video camera on a tripod at right records the gathering. Water bottles sit on a table at the front. Several visible people are seated in the foreground, with dozens more across the rows.

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