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A photograph of a temple courtyard in Tiruvannamalai with pink and grey stone temple buildings, a tall gopuram-style gateway, and palm trees behind. In the foreground, a man with long swept-back dark hair and a red tilak on his forehead wears an orange saffron robe and a green leafy garland with white flowers, plus a gold bead necklace. He holds a folded yellow paper in both hands. Behind him, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti wears a saffron shawl and a pink rosette, carrying a cloth bag, and several devotees in white and saffron clothing stand nearby. Onlookers in shirts and dhotis stand around the open courtyard, and a green garland lies on the stone pavement at the right edge. The long-haired man with saffron robe, garland and gold beads is a probable Swamiji by appearance cues, so swamiji is in_person.