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A photograph of a large video wall displaying a multi-site video conference grid of many small live feeds from different ashram centres and devotee homes. Panels show people seated on sofas, chairs and floors, some in white or red clothing, a woman in a red top on a sofa, a group in white and orange garments seated in a room, and a man in white with a garland. Labels on panels read San Diego Carlsbad, Dallas Dwaraka, Surrey Canada, Dakota Dunes, Houston Kalahasti Aadheenam, Atlanta Udayagiri and Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam.

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February 14 20152015-02-14February 14 20152015-02-14February 14 20152015-02-14A photograph of a large video wall displaying a grid of live video feeds from multiple locations, each labelled with a place name. Top right panel labelled SURREY CANADA shows two women seated on a sofa in a home setting. Below it DALLAS - DWARAKA shows a seated man in white and a deity murti on a shrine. LOS ANGELES-HOLLYWOOD shows a man in white seated on a mat beneath a framed picture. Other panels labelled Toronto-Kailasham, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Atlanta Ujjaini, Warrington-UK, Lochana North San Antonio and NY Varanasi Manhattan show small groups of people seated in ashram-style settings, many in white clothing. The people shown are on screens, not physically present in the room.2015-02-14February 15 20152015-02-15A large screen shows a grid of video-conference tiles from satsang locations around the world, including Houston Kalahasti Adheenam, Surrey Canada, Singapore Singapuram, Minot North Dakota, Warrington UK, Bangalore North, Dubai Vaidyanatham, Doncaster UK, Hyderabad Adheenam and Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Trivandrum. People in each tile sit or stand in rooms with framed portraits, deity murtis and altars. In one tile a man in orange and white stands beside a placard reading DAKOTA DUNES, and in another a woman holds a placard reading SLOVAKIA POPRAD. A woman in red and white in the lower-right tile lifts her hand, and a man in white sits near a throne-like seat with a kalasha in another tile. The screen is a satsang broadcast, so the people shown are on screens rather than physically present, and no speaker is visibly identifiable as a person.2015-02-21A photograph of a large flat-screen monitor showing a grid of video-conference tiles, each a separate remote group of devotees seated indoors. Tiles show people in white and cream clothing sitting on floors and sofas, with handwritten or printed place-name signs such as JUAREZ MEXICO, SEATTLE CHIDAMBARAM, NEW JERSEY OMKARESHWAR, GUADELOUPE, SINGAPURAM and PARIS. One tile shows an altar with a lamp and a deity image. In the bottom right tile, a man with short hair wearing an orange-saffron robe and a beaded necklace speaks, seemingly on a stage; he has some a person cues but the appearance is not conclusive. Several tiles show people in white, and a red-clothed woman sits on a sofa.2013-01-12Photograph of a large display screen showing a video conference grid of many small panels, each labelled with an Aadheenam or city location such as St. Louis Aadheenam, Dubai Aadheenam, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Ponca City Oklahoma, Juarez Mexico, San Diego, Seattle Aadheenam, Winnipeg Canada and Wellington New Zealand. Groups of people sit cross-legged on cushions or sofas in living rooms, many in white or cream clothing, reciting or meditating together. In the bottom-right panel a man in an orange-red turban, orange robes, rudraksha mala and ornate gold necklace sits on a throne-like chair beside a trident-shaped ornament, labelled Self View.2015-08-08February 15 20152015-02-15 +1 copiesA photograph of a large screen showing a grid of video-conference tiles from satsang participants in different cities. Tiles are labelled with city names such as Dallas-Dwaraka, East London, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, Paris-Kailasa, Ohio-Prayag, Prison-Kailasa and Palo Alto-Madurai. Participants sit in meditation or yoga postures in homes and rooms, some in saffron or orange clothes and some in white. A man in white kurta stands in a tile on the lower right, and a woman in orange clothing sits in another. A small logo appears in the upper left, and a rolled mat sits at the bottom right. The screen is blurred.2013-09-28 +1 copiesAugust 03 20132013-08-03A photograph of a large wall-mounted video display showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple centres. Tiles include Auckland New Zealand, Atlanta Ujjaini, Grasse France, Moliere France, Lochana North San Antonio, Toronto Thirukailaya Adheenam, Dallas Dwaraka, NY Varanasi Manhattan, Yonkers NewYork, Dakota Dunes, Los Angeles Arunachala Peetam and Seattle Chidamba. Participants sit in meditation, yoga and satsang postures, some on cushions and mats, others on chairs, with a ritual scene on one tile and a screen-within-screen view of a seated figure in orange clothing with a crown and beads at the lower right. The display frame is dark and the room around it is dim.2015-02-16