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A photograph of a ceremonial welcome in a yellow-walled room with framed deity pictures and a garlanded calendar-style portrait. A bare-chested man with long swept-back hair, wearing a white and green-red floral garland, sits on an orange cushioned seat with palms pressed together. Around him, devotees kneel and stand: a seated man in an orange shawl and white dhoti holds a lit oil lamp, a young man in white shirt and dhoti and a woman in a cream sari hold offering trays, and older women in white saris with rudraksha malas fold their hands. Two saffron-robed sannyasis stand behind, and a photographer with a camera is in the background.