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A photograph of a healing-and-blessing session in an indoor hall with red curtains and a white standing fan. A seated figure in orange robes with long dark hair, wearing a rudraksha mala, extends a hand toward a kneeling devotee in white. Around them, people in white with orange shawls and saffron scarves sit and stand, one man with palms pressed together in namaskar and another holding folded papers. On the white-draped table in front are rudraksha malas, a gold chain, booklets and small photo cards, and a tray of sweets. Several women in white sit in the foreground. The orange-robed seated figure has long swept-back hair and a rudraksha mala, which are the appearance cues consistent with the page's identification; the robed presenter is therefore labelled as probable Swamiji.

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