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Seated devotees at a satsang gathering in white kurtas and orange-and-saffron shawls with printed script. In the foreground a man with glasses, a short greying beard and a rudraksha mala holds his palms together in anjali, facing forward beside an empty teal chair. To his left an older man with glasses claps, and behind them several more men in white with orange shawls and rudraksha malas clap and sit in rows. The setting appears to be an ashram hall with a red floor covering. The image shows people gathered for a ceremony, with no visible identification of any individual.

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A seated devotional gathering in white ritual clothing. In the foreground, a man with short curly hair, glasses and a grey goatee sits beside an empty teal chair, clapping with palms together. He wears a white kurta, a rudraksha mala with beads of dark red, and an orange-and-black patterned shawl over one shoulder. Behind him, rows of men in white clothes and orange shawls clap or fold their hands, with a man in grey on the right. The scene suggests an assembly applauding at a discourse or satsang hall.2017-03-03A seated devotee in the foreground, bare-chested with a white dhoti and an orange-red shawl printed with a person text, applauds with hands together. He wears glasses, a vibhuti line on his forehead with a red kumkum dot, and a rudraksha-style necklace. Around him, seated devotees in white and orange-red shawls clap, and the hall is blurred with more participants behind them.2017-03-04March 03 20172017-03-03March 04 20172017-03-04Five men sit in a row of white plastic chairs in a hall with pale pink walls and framed pictures, reciting or meditating during a ritual sitting. The man at left wears white kurta with rudraksha mala, red-orange shawl, eyes closed, holding a small book and a metal item. The second man wears white with a red shawl and holds a red-covered book; the third, bearded and bespectacled, wears orange-red wrap and white dhoti with yellow border, palms pressed together in anjali. Two more men in white dhotis with yellow borders sit to the right, one holding papers. A small red book with a golden deity image on its cover rests on the lap of the leftmost man, and bare feet rest on the tiled floor.2017-08-11May 04 20142014-05-04Seated devotees in a large hall during a Navaratri darshan at the Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam. Foreground men wear white dhotis and white shirts with red-orange shawls and rudraksha malas; the central man holds his palms together in anjali, while others sit with hands folded. Behind them many more devotees in white and saffron-orange clothing sit in rows. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible in this frame, so no candidate is marked.2017-09-23 +1 copiesMarch 03 20172017-03-03A seated bald man in a white kurta wears a red rudraksha mala and an orange-red shawl printed with script, and he clasps his hands while smiling toward the front of a hall. Beside him a man with a beard and orange shawl sits in a white outfit, and rows of seated attendees in white and orange-red clothing fill the room, with wooden chairs in the foreground. The seated man shows no distinctive saffron or crown cues, so his identity is not established from appearance and he is described by role only as a seated participant.2017-03-04A seated group of devotees in white ritual clothing sits on a patterned carpet during a padapuja or satsang. In the foreground a man in white kurta and white dhoti with a lanyard and rudraksha mala sits with hands folded, eyes closed. Beside him a man in white with a sandalwood-and-vibhuti forehead mark and glasses sits with hands joined. To the right a moustached man in white with a red lanyard sits with hands clasped. Brass plates, flower petals, oil lamps, a glass of orange juice, and a kalasha-like brass vessel lie on the floor before them. Many other people in white sit behind, some with hands in anjali mudra, and a curly-haired child sits at the right edge. No one shown is identifiable as a person; the scene contains no prominent figure on a throne.2013-12-13June 18 20172017-06-18October 10 20162016-10-10