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Large group of devotees seated cross-legged on colourful striped mats during a satsang gathering in a hall. In the foreground, a bare-chested young man with glasses and a red-brown sash over one shoulder, with a rudraksha mala and a vertical tilak on his forehead, sits with palms pressed together. Beside him, a man with long dreadlocked hair tied up and a tattooed arm also holds his palms joined. Nearby, a man with a forehead tilak sits with hands folded, and another in white dhoti with gold border and blue lanyard sits with hands in prayer. A copper water bottle sits on the mat. Many participants wear white dhotis with gold borders and blue lanyards, and some are bare-chested; gold pillars stand in the background.

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