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A photograph inside a plain concrete-block hall during an evening ritual. A shaved-headed man in white dhoti and orange shawl stands at left, gesturing with one hand toward a seated figure. Seated on a white-draped chair at right is a long-haired man in an orange robe with a rudraksha mala, legs bare and feet on a red mat, appearing to receive the ritual. On the floor before him sit a man in white with an orange shawl and a group of seated devotees; silver ritual vessels and small oil lamps rest on woven mats. Standing behind are men in white kurtas and dhotis, several wearing green-and-white garlands, and a woman in a green sari. A red cloth hangs at right beside a carved stone pillar. The seated figure with long hair, orange robe and rudraksha is a probable Swamiji candidate by appearance; identity remains uncertain.

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