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A seated congregation of devotees in white clothes with orange-red shawls and orange lanyards, photographed in a large hall with a white pedestal fan at upper right. In the foreground an older woman in white with a gold bangle touches her forehead with her hand, eyes closed. Behind her a man in white with an orange shawl also raises a hand to his brow. Other devotees around them, some with long braids and some holding small papers, sit in meditative stillness. No speaker or throne is visible in the frame.

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