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A photograph inside a hall where seated saffron-robed sannyasis perform a puja before a decorated altar with a golden deity murti under a canopy of marigold and white flower garlands. In the foreground, a large brass oil lamp with a bird-shaped finial stands on a bed of white and orange flowers. A man on the far left wears a saffron turban and saffron robes and sits with hands near the lamp; another man wearing a saffron shawl on the right sits with a metal vessel. Several other saffron-robed men sit and stand in the background, and a person in white sits at the left edge. Two saffron-clad figures stand near the back. Probable Swamiji (saffron turban, saffron robes and rudraksha beads visible on the seated man in the foreground), seated at the lamp.

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