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A large indoor hall filled with seated devotees in white ritual clothes, many with orange or gold-trimmed sashes, facing a raised stage at right. On the golden throne with red cushions sits a person in orange-red robes speaking into a microphone, with a stage light on a stand beside them. Hanging colourful striped banners decorate the white ceiling. Several monks in saffron robes sit near the back of the hall. The overwhelming majority of the crowd is white-clad women and men, with some in orange, and the scene reads as a satsang or discourse session. The seated crowd is large, well over one hundred people.

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A large hall filled with seated devotees, mostly in white clothing with some in orange and pink, facing a raised stage. On the stage a figure in orange and white sits on an ornate golden throne with red cushions and a red backdrop, with a stand-mounted spotlight nearby. Decorative hanging banners in red, yellow and blue line the ceiling area, and video cameras are visible at the left and right edges. Some devotees wear white shawls and orange garments, and a few women wear pink and white saris.2009-06-21June 21 20092009-06-21A photograph of a seated audience facing a raised stage in a large tent hall during an energy darshan. On the stage, a person in orange robes sits on an ornate gold and red throne with a white cushion, one arm raised in gesture. Seated devotees in white clothes with orange shawls fill the foreground, many with long braided hair. 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