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A seated congregation of men dressed in white shirts and white dhotis sits on mats in a hall at a satsang. In the foreground, a young man in white with a red-dotted forehead rests his chin on his hand, while an older man in a white shirt and white dhoti sits upright, and a man with white vibhuti horizontal stripes on his forehead sits to the right. Many others fill the rows behind them, some wearing identification badges on their shirts, and water bottles rest on the floor. Watermarked archive photo from a Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam satsang.

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