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Close-up photo of a smiling man with long, swept-back dark hair and a full beard, wearing a saffron-orange shawl over bare shoulders and a gold necklace. A red vertical tilak mark and white forehead markings are visible. He looks down, eyes half-closed, toward a white paper or sheet at the lower left. The background is a blurred, glittering silver and warm-toned setting. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair, saffron shawl and gold necklace on a man seated in a ceremonial setting.