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Outdoor scene on a dirt ground at what appears to be an ashram compound with palm trees and a red-walled building under a green metal roof with a small flag. Dozens of people sit cross-legged inside individual circular earthen rings, each ringed with small lit flames, many wearing white clothes and some with orange shawls or saffron garments. A woman in an orange sari-style garment holds a long stick with a flame near one ring, while a man in white stands at right. A cameraman in white with an orange shawl films from the lower left. Oil lamps and fire pits mark the rings in a ritual practice, possibly meditation or homa.

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