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A seated group of devotees with eyes closed in a white-walled hall with a potted palm. In the foreground, rows of white plastic chairs hold mostly white-clad attendees, many wearing lanyards. A central young man wears a cream short-sleeved shirt and a long rudraksha mala and sits with eyes closed. Beside him a bearded man in a cream shirt and grey trousers wears a lanyard and rests his hands in his lap. Women in white and a woman with a red bindi sit with closed eyes in the front rows. Many of the people seen are partially visible at the edges of the frame.

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