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A man stands barefoot on a yellow stripe across a hall floor, holding a cordless microphone in his right hand. He wears a maroon silk kurta with gold embroidered trim, a gold-bordered shawl draped over his left arm, and a cream turban with a red tilak on his forehead. Behind him, a long row of seated participants in white clothes and white blindfolds sits on mats along the right wall. The hall has a white tent ceiling, a decorated pillar with painted elephant motifs, a wooden door, and a standing fan.

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January 07 20082008-01-07A standing man in a flowing orange-red robe walks down the centre of a green-carpeted hall, looking upward, with a red bindi on his forehead and long dark hair. Behind and around him, seated devotees wear white clothes and white blindfolds over their eyes, some with hands folded, and a row of blindfolded people watches from a wooden balcony above. Ornate wooden wall panels and a dark wooden door frame the hall, and ceiling fans hang over the balcony. The scene suggests a satsang gathering with blindfolded participants.2009-06-14A barefoot man in a flowing red-orange sannyasi robe walks down a green carpeted aisle in a hall with wooden panelled walls. Participants seated on both sides wear white clothes and white blindfold cloths over their eyes, and more blindfolded people watch from a balcony railing above. Ceiling fans are mounted on the balcony. Scene resembles a satsang with blindfolded participants.2009-06-14May 13 20132013-05-13 +1 copiesJanuary 07 20082008-01-07Photograph of an indoor hall with white walls and a grey concrete floor marked with yellow tape lines. In the foreground a figure seen from behind wears a deep red silk robe, a gold-bordered sash and a cream turban, with long dark hair, walking barefoot away from the camera. Two women in white saris stand near the back, and a seated figure in white is at a desk at the far right. About a dozen young people in white clothes with white headbands sit cross-legged along the right side. Decorative cylindrical banners with bird and elephant motifs hang from the ceiling.2008-01-07May 09 20132013-05-09 +1 copiesA large hall with rows of seated participants on red mats, mostly in white clothes, facing a central aisle lined with silver stanchions. In the foreground a figure in an orange-saffron turban, orange and gold-bordered robe and a long rudraksha-style bead mala walks forward down the aisle, probable Swamiji, wearing a shawl-like wrap. Overhead ceiling lights, red curtains and a gold-coloured shrine or decorated altar stand at the far end of the hall. Participants sit in orderly lines with notebooks and water bottles nearby.2013-08-17May 23 20152015-05-23August 18 20132013-08-18 +1 copiesFebruary 24 20112011-02-24Indoor satsang hall with a green carpet where a man with long dark hair, bare-shouldered and wearing a saffron-orange wrap, stands with eyes closed in front of a seated congregation. Many seated devotees in white clothes wear white blindfolds across their eyes, sitting in rows on the carpet and on red mats. Some seated men wear maroon kurta with name badges. Above, more people in white sit in a balcony, a speaker stands on a pole at right, and wall fans and windows line the room.2009-06-14