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A large audience of seated devotees fills a hall decorated with colourful paper lanterns and fabric drapes hanging from the ceiling. In the centre a bearded man with long dark hair, wearing an orange robe, stands on a raised platform near a red chair and a small table, addressing the crowd. Many attendees sit on the floor and in chairs, wearing white, yellow, red and patterned clothes, some with mala beads. Projection screens and a camera on a tripod are visible at the sides. A banner on the wall shows the words Nithyananda Dhyanapeetham.

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