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A smiling man sits in an orange leather chair, holding a long wooden staff upright in his right hand. His hair is swept back, he wears a red bindi, and his bare chest is covered by an orange and yellow shawl over an orange garment. He wears thick rudraksha mala beads around his neck and a white bandage on his forearm. Behind him is a red velvet seat with a large gold-coloured ornate carving of a lion-like or mythic animal head and gilded decorative panels. Swamiji (probable): the man has long swept-back hair, rudraksha malas and saffron-orange ceremonial clothing, matching the page's claim that Swamiji is present.