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A photograph of a padapuja at a devotee's house in a living room with a beige sofa and white floral garlands draped along the wall. A person with long swept-back hair, orange and dark-red robes, multiple garlands and gold bangles sits on an orange-draped seat, palms pressed together in greeting and smiling. Around them, several saffron-robed young men with shaved heads and garlands sit and stand; one raises a white staff with a tassel. In the foreground a bearded man in white clothes and a woman in white with an orange shawl hold flowers and a lit oil lamp in a brass thali. A man in white with glasses bends forward holding flowers. Roughly eight to nine people are visible, including a cameraman at upper left. Swamiji (probable) is the person seated on the orange seat, identified by long swept-back hair, ornate gold bangles, garlands and orange-red robes.

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