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Night procession on a red carpet under strings of lights and a yellow-green canopy. A bearded man in a rust-orange robe and orange sash, with a white and pink flower garland, walks smiling at the centre, holding a tall yellow pole. Beside him a man in white dhoti with gold border and a bead necklace carries a silver trishul. Around them, shirtless men in orange and gold dhotis and women in rust-orange saris with rudraksha malas follow, some with palms pressed together in greeting. A small boy in maroon kurta stands at right, and a woman in white at left blurs the foreground. The orange-robed man with the garland is a probable Swamiji by appearance, with his long swept-back hair, ornate gold necklace and rudraksha mala cues, shown leading the procession as a central figure.

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