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Indoor photo of a sannyasi initiation in a room with a red-patterned carpet and a framed gold-and-painted temple panel on the wall. A bearded man with long dark hair, wearing an ochre-brown robe draped over his shoulders, sits on a red cushioned chair holding a silver trident and an orange cloth bundle. Facing him, a young man kneels on the carpet with hands folded in prayer, bare-chested, wearing a white dhoti with gold border and a rudraksha mala. Three more bare-chested young men in white dhotis stand behind him, one holding papers. A wall map and bookshelves are visible, and a gold deity murti sits on a side table. Swamiji (probable): the seated robed figure with long hair and a bearded face is described by the page as the presiding teacher; appearance cues are a long swept-back hair style, ochre robe and rudraksha mala.

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