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A young man with short dark curly hair and a wide smile sits in profile wearing a yellow garment, while a person's arm with a red thread bracelet presses fingers to his forehead in a blessing. Behind him a woman in a cream and gold sari with a red bindi and a red-brown beaded mala looks down. A gold-toned staff or rod is visible at right beside a hand with bangles, and a figure in purple stands at the back. The setting appears to be a ritual blessing or ceremony.

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December 21 20162016-12-21March 24 20182018-03-24 +1 copiesClose photo of a young man with short black hair and closed eyes, smiling calmly, receiving an energy darshan. A hand with a red thread bracelet and a raised forefinger touches his forehead at the brow, where a white vibhuti line is visible. His palms are pressed together in namaskar at the lower left edge. The background is dark and blurred. A faint logo sits in the upper left corner.2018-03-24December 21 20162016-12-21May 04 20172017-05-04A photograph of a close, intimate blessing moment. A smiling young man with long dark hair, hoop earring, and rudraksha mala with a white cloth garment stands on the left, eyes closed and grinning. A bearded man with long dreadlocked hair and a white vibhuti or tilak mark on his forehead reaches out to press his palm on the young man's forehead; he wears a red wrist thread, a pink-and-white flower garland, and an orange-red cloth. Gold ornaments and a white-robed figure appear in the blurred background. Two people are visible; the a person appearance is not certain enough to claim identity.2017-05-22A photograph of a bearded man in a dark garment with a gold bangle and red thread on his wrist pressing his right hand to the forehead of a young boy in a white kurta with a rudraksha-style necklace. Behind them a woman in a cream and gold sari with gold necklaces watches, and other seated people are blurred in the background against a pale pink wall. The scene suggests a ritual initiation or blessing moment.2017-05-05February 19 20172017-02-19July 11 20102010-07-11May 09 20172017-05-09A bare-chested young boy with short dark hair kneels with palms pressed together in namaste while a long-haired bearded man in a pink and gold garland places his hand on the boy's forehead. The garland man wears a long-haired, bearded appearance with distinctive long hair and a pink-and-gold flower garland, which is an appearance-based a person candidate in a ritual initiation setting. Behind them a man in an orange-brown robe holds a folded paper slip aloft near a silver ritual vessel, and a rudraksha bead hangs from a red thread. Other bare-chested men in white dhotis stand in the background, and a gold-decorated figure appears at the right edge. The boy wears a white thread and a dark bead necklace.2017-05-09A photograph of a ritual blessing in a temple-like hall. A man with long dreadlocked hair decorated with rudraksha beads, a rudraksha mala and bracelets, wearing a rust-orange sleeveless garment, presses his palm to the forehead of a seated young man with shaved-back hair who has eyes closed and bare shoulders. Behind them, two people in white and yellow dhoti-style garments stand near a golden carved wall. A white tilak marks the standing man's forehead. The scene suggests a ritual blessing, identified only by visible actions.2017-07-11