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Night-time outdoor satsang seen from the front, with seated devotees in white clothes in the foreground, several with hands raised in greeting or prayer. A figure in a bright orange robe sits cross-legged further back; the orange-robed person has a sandalwood-coloured cloth wrapped around the shoulders and a beaded rudraksha mala, and appears to be a sannyasi or swami, but the appearance is not certain. A woman in a white dress with a gold border stands at the right edge holding a white plate of offerings, possibly fruit and flowers. A woman in a striped maroon head covering and another in a red shawl are seated among the devotees. Behind them a white-and-red shrine structure stands on a red pedestal in the dark. Several people are visible, roughly six to twenty.

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