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A seated satsang audience inside a wooden-panelled hall with patterned walls. Many devotees sit cross-legged on striped blue-and-white mats, most in white clothes with red or orange shawls and rudraksha-style beaded necklaces. A bald man in the foreground wears a red shawl and white tilak on his forehead, while a bearded man beside him in white with a red shawl listens attentively. A man in an orange jacket and white cap sits among chairs at the back, and a woman in white with a red shawl appears near the top right. Several people wear headphones for translation. Some write in notebooks, and bottles and bags lie on the mats. Total visible people numbers about 40.

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