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Outdoor evening satsang with a large seated audience at Adi Kailasa, Bengaluru, in front of a stage. In the foreground an elderly woman with grey hair and glasses wears a white blouse, a white-and-red bandhani-style sari with a red border, and a black beaded mala, her hands pressed together in prayer. Beside her a woman in glasses and a black mala also joins her palms. Behind them men and women sit on the floor and in blue plastic chairs, many in white kurtas and sarees with orange and red shawls and orange lanyards. A woman on the left wears a white sari with a blue blouse and an ID badge. A man in the centre raises his hand in gesture, and a man on the right in a white kurta sits cross-legged. A metal walker is in the foreground.

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