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A photograph of a man with long dark hair, a white vertical tilak on his forehead, a white and red flower garland and a brown-orange shawl over bare shoulders, placing his right hand on the head of a young boy in a white kurta with an orange lanyard. The boy stands with his palms raised together in respectful greeting. A rudraksha-style mala is worn on his wrist. Behind them is a red cloth backdrop, a gold pole, a white air-conditioning unit and a red cushion, with a partially visible man in white dhoti and rudraksha mala at the left edge. The setting suggests a blessing or darshan moment. The man's appearance, with long hair, brown-orange shawl, flower garland and forehead marking, is a probable match for the Swamiji cues, so the desc labels him Swamiji (probable) as the one giving the blessing.

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