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A photograph of a padapuja in a small indoor room with green walls and a yellow painted dado. A seated figure in an orange-red robe and a red-orange turban, wearing a long white and red flower garland, rudraksha mala and gold bangles, sits on a raised red-and-yellow chair with a silver trident behind him. Devotees surround him; a bare-chested man in orange kneels and washes or touches the feet, while a woman in an orange and green sari presses her palms together. Silver plates with oil lamps, marigold and rose petals lie on the floor, and a framed photograph of a figure in orange garlands hangs at the upper right. Swamiji (probable) is seated at centre in orange robes, a red turban and rudraksha mala, receiving the puja from devotees.

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