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A photograph of a monitor showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple ashram and satsang centres during a remote satsang. Panels show people seated on floors and chairs in rooms with decorations, puja setups with oil lamps, fruit and flower offerings, and a pada-puja arrangement. Handwritten-style labels on the panels read place names including Monterey Mexico, Guadeloupe, Charlotte Kailasa, Singapuram, Oklahoma Sonnathan, St. Louis, Bangalore North, Newjersey Princeton, and Istanbul Turkey. In the bottom right panel a figure in white with a yellow garment performs a ritual. A bottom-centre panel shows a man in white with a red-and-gold backdrop and a forehead mark. A , , Source

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February 22 20132013-02-22 +1 copiesOctober 24 20122012-10-24January 22 20132013-01-22A photograph of a large monitor displaying a grid of video-conference tiles from multiple satsang centres. Several tiles show groups seated in meditation and prayer on mats, many with flower garlands, kalasha-like offerings and deity murti on decorated altars. Labels on tiles read SINGAPURAM, TORONTO, SAN JOSE, LOS ANGELES, OKLAHOMA, ANNA NAGAR and others. One tile shows a person seated cross-legged on a red throne-like seat beneath a mandala-style backdrop, near the bottom right. Tiles show people in saffron, red, white and green clothing.2012-09-15 +1 copiesMay 08 20132013-05-08A photograph of a large monitor displaying a video conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations, each labelled with a place name. Feeds show groups of people seated in homes and centres: a woman in orange and a man in white at a table with flowers, a group in white seated on the floor, a man in an orange shawl in Bengaluru North, and a bald man in white with a mala and a woman in white with a mala in Port Washington NY. Labels include Singapore Singapuram, San Diego Tsru Alavi, New York Varanasi, Bengaluru North, Port Washington NY and Sri Julien Pranam. Visible people in the screens are part of the feeds, not physical people in the room.2013-04-14June 22 20122012-06-22 +1 copiesAugust 26 20122012-08-26 +1 copiesOctober 06 20122012-10-06A large video-conference grid displayed on a screen, showing a collage of many small live panels of people in home and ashram settings, labelled with handwritten or printed place signs such as Washington D.C. Sripuram, Guadeloupe, New Jersey, Vancouver Home, Houston North-West, Bangalore Whitefield, Brockley London, Turkey, St. Louis, Arunachala Tiruvannamalai and Anna Nagar. Many participants sit cross-legged on mats in saffron, orange, red and green clothes, some with ritual red and white markings, around puja items and flowers. In the bottom right panel, a man with a shaved head and saffron-orange robes with a gold necklace sits before a golden backdrop, with a rudraksha mala. This is a photograph of a screen showing a collage, so the physical people count refers only to people in the room, which is effectively none visible apart from a partial garment edge.2012-09-05A photograph of a large video wall showing a live multi-site satsang feed. Tiles show different locations: at the top left a temple with a decorated deity shrine and people in orange and white seated for pada-pooja; top right a group of people seated before a framed picture and yellow flowers; a centre room with a large seated congregation in orange and white clothing; a woman in a white top sitting on a mat before a person photo, with a small sign; and at the bottom right a man with a shaved head, white tilak and rudraksha beads, wearing orange and seated on a red cushioned throne before a red and gold backdrop, with a small mic on his collar. Other tiles show devotees in red and blue sitting on mats and a man in blue and a woman in pink at a ritual setup. Signs read Guadeloupe and Singapuram. The screen frame is on the right edge.2012-10-05March 08 20132013-03-08 +1 copies