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A seated group of devotees in a hall during a satsang or deeksha session. In the foreground, a man with blond hair and a red tilak on his forehead, eyes closed, wears a white kurta and a wooden rudraksha mala. Beside him a man in a beige kurta with a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged, and a smiling man in a lavender-grey shirt presses his palms together in anjali. Behind them, bare-chested men in white dhotis wear rudraksha malas, and a young boy and other seated attendees fill the room; a plastic water bottle sits on the floor. A wooden door and a wall-mounted cooling unit are visible in the background.

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