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A photo of a devotee in a white shirt with an orange shawl and a wooden mala bowing with palms joined, receiving or handing over a white paper. Facing him is a man in a rust-orange robe with an orange shawl, a long rudraksha mala, a gold necklace and a white-and-red forehead mark, with gold earrings and long dark hair. Gold deity and throne decor with red floral garlands is blurred behind them, with other people at the edges.

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April 15 20132013-04-15June 18 20132013-06-18April 01 20132013-04-01A photograph of a kneeling devotee in a white shirt and white dhoti, hands pressed together in anjali, receiving a blessing as a man places his right hand on the devotee's head. The blessing giver wears an orange-saffron robe, a multi-strand rudraksha mala with a gold ornamental pendant, pearl and rudraksha waist strings, beaded armlets and bracelets, and large ornate gold earrings, with a white horizontal tilak and red bindi on his forehead. He holds a folded white paper in his other hand and looks down. In the background, other people in orange robes stand near a maroon curtain and a hanging orange-and-red tassel. a person appears as the blessing giver, based on saffron robes, rudraksha malas and ornate gold ornaments, and is shown in the role of a blessing giver during satsang-style initiation.2013-02-22 +1 copiesA photograph of a ritual exchange in a temple-like hall. A man in a saffron-orange wrap and bare-armed, with a bindi, wears long heavy gold necklaces of bead-like links and gold armlets; he raises one palm toward a devotee while extending the other hand over a small paper offering held by a bespectacled man in a white shirt. Other devotees in white clothes stand nearby with hands folded, and a gold-coloured backdrop and red drapery fill the background. The orange-robed figure with ornate gold adornments and a distinctive presentation is a person candidate, but the identity is uncertain from appearance alone.2013-05-24A photo of a devotional blessing in a hall with red velvet drapes and a gold throne-like seat behind. A central figure with long swept-back dark hair, a red bindi, gold hoop earrings, a gold necklace and armlets, and an orange-saffron shawl over the shoulders holds a sheet of paper while placing a hand on the head of a young man who bows with palms pressed together. Probable Swamiji: the central figure's long hair, saffron clothing, gold ornaments and ceremonial stance match the cues for this teacher, and the blessing is being given in a satsang-style setting. Other people nearby wear white and join hands in prayer, including a man on the left and a figure at right wearing rudraksha beads and gold jewellery. A microphone stand and a lectern appear in the background.2013-08-04A photograph of a saffron-robed man with short dark hair, white sacred ash marks on his forehead and a red bindi, smiling and raising his right hand in a blessing gesture toward a kneeling devotee in a white kurta with folded palms. The robed man wears a long gold-coloured mala necklace with a large ornate gold pendant, gold bangles and gold armlets over a bare upper body in an orange-brown wrap. Behind him stand other robed devotees and people in white clothing near metal stanchions, with a decorated backdrop of painted deity figures and gold-trimmed shrine panels in the background. A white-clad person on the left holds a folded paper. a person is shown in the centre giving blessings to a devotee, with gold ornaments and saffron clothing as the qualifying cues.2013-07-25A photograph of a ritual exchange. A man in a white shirt with a red shawl stands with palms pressed together in namaste, head bowed, while a figure in saffron-orange robes places his hand on the devotee's head to bless him. The blessing figure wears a rudraksha mala of large beads across the chest, a gold necklace, gold earrings, beaded bracelets on the upper arms and wrists, a white and red tilak on the forehead, and holds a white sheet of paper in his other hand while reading from it. Behind them a dark red curtain and a golden statue are partly visible, and other white-clad people stand nearby. Whether the blessing figure is a person cannot be confirmed from appearance alone, so only the role is described.2013-02-01Photo of three men in a hall with a maroon curtain and a yellow-and-red tassel behind them. On the right, a man with long swept-back dark hair, a red bindi and a rust-orange wrap, wearing a long string of large gold beads and rudraksha-style brown mala beads, looks down smiling at a printed sheet he holds in both hands. Beside him stands a shaved-headed priest in rust-orange robes with white tripundra markings and a bead mala, looking toward the sheet. On the left, two men in white shirts stand close, one pointing at the paper with his finger.2013-05-03September 11 20132013-09-11 +1 copiesMay 29 20132013-05-29Indoor temple hall with red velvet drapes and a golden shrine backdrop, a deity murti in the upper background. In the foreground, a figure in an orange saffron garment with heavy gold ceremonial necklaces and gold armlets holds a small white paper and looks down at it, with a red tilak on the forehead and dark hair swept back. Beside him stands a man in white dhoti and shawl with gold border, rudraksha mala and beaded bracelet, watching. On the left, a person in white shirt with palms pressed together in anjali, and a partially visible person at the edge. Microphones on stands and cables on the floor are visible. a person: the orange-robed figure with gold necklaces and swept-back hair matches the expected presentation, but the face cannot be confirmed, so identity is uncertain.2013-08-04