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A photograph taken indoors at a meditation hall during an energy darshan session. A smiling man in an orange-saffron turban and bare-chested orange-saffron shawl, wearing a multicoloured garland of white flowers, places his right hand on the head of a woman with her hair in a braid, who stands with her hands folded in prayer and her eyes closed. She wears a white sari with a flower in her hair. Behind them, several women in white and cream saris stand and watch, and a loudspeaker sits on a raised platform near a staircase. a person (saffron turban, rainbow-coloured flower garland, saffron shawl) gives energy blessing to a devotee.

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