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Close-up portrait photograph of a man with eyes closed in calm meditative repose, head tilted slightly downward. He wears a white band across the forehead with a dark vertical tilak mark at the centre, and long dark hair falls at the side. Gold and beaded ornaments with a bead necklace appear at the bottom edge of the frame, and a deep red background sits behind him. Appearance cues include long hair, a white forehead band, ornate gold necklace and dark tilak, consistent with the Swamiji (probable) candidate presented in a meditative portrait.