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A seated audience at a satsang, filling the frame in rows. Foreground devotees wear saffron and orange robes with rudraksha malas and white sacred ash (vibhuti) marks on their foreheads; several have red bindis. Behind them, men in white shirts and white dhotis, some wearing red shawls and lanyards, sit attentively, and Western-looking participants in white tops and beaded necklaces appear in the back row. A young child with his hands pressed together sits at the upper right. The setting is an indoor hall with red carpeting and a red-draped stage edge at the top left.

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