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A photograph of a ritual offering in progress. A person with long dark hair, wearing a red-orange garment and a floral garland, sits on a red and gold throne-like seat, holding an apple. Beside them, a man in a white dhoti with a gold-toned neck garland kneels and holds out apples toward a golden trident-shaped ritual object, with a metal tray of apples on the floor. Around them, devotees in orange and saffron robes, rudraksha malas and white clothing stand and watch, with some hands folded in namaskar. Gold-trimmed red cloth and offering items lie in the foreground. Swamiji (probable): the seated figure with long hair, garland and red-orange clothing is the presumed Swamiji.

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