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A nighttime outdoor crowd gathered on an open ground for a Guru Purnima satsang. In the foreground, a bald man in an orange dhoti with a rudraksha mala and a shaved-head priest in white and orange stand among devotees. A woman with blonde hair wears a sari and rudraksha mala beside another blonde woman with a red bindi. A young man wears a white garland and a red-striped polo with a red tilak. Behind them, men in white dhotis and rudraksha malas, and women in saris stand watching, some clapping. Light cloth and a palm-tree backdrop appear at the upper left.

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