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Indoor evening puja under a corrugated metal roof at Aadikailaasa, Bengaluru. Three priests in white dhotis and orange shawls stand at left, centre and right, raising a lit aarti lamp and a silver lamp stand high, with bells in their other hands. Left, a deity murti decorated with yellow marigold garlands sits on a green-draped platform before a magenta cloth with gold motifs. Centre-right, a framed portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" shows a saffron-robed figure with a mala. Seated devotees fill the lower right. Visible orange, white, and bright flower colours dominate. The right priest wears a white forehead mark and a mala, and the left priest wears a forehead band.

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