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A photograph of a long-haired, bearded man with dreadlocks and a bare chest, draped in a rust-red saffron wrap with embroidered trim, placing his right hand on the forehead of a shaven-headed young man seated in front, who has his eyes closed and wears a white cloth and a rudraksha mala. A golden deity murti stands in the background beside a silver-toned staff, and a silver vessel sits at the lower right. The seated man appears to be receiving a blessing. a person: the standing man has long dreadlocks, a saffron wrap and a rudraksha-adorned setting, and he performs the blessing as the presiding figure.

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March 28 20182018-03-28 +1 copiesMarch 28 20182018-03-28 +2 copiesApril 13 20182018-04-13 +1 copiesA photograph of an initiation moment: a long-haired man with a bare upper torso, wearing an orange-red shawl and a rudraksha mala, reaches out to touch the forehead of a seated man in an orange-red shawl with printed script, who has a horizontal sacred ash mark. Behind them, figures in white and red-orange garments stand blurred, and a small gold deity murti sits in the foreground. The setting appears to be a ritual hall.2017-06-24A photograph of a long-haired, bearded man with dreadlocks, bare-chested and draped in a rust-red cloth, with a gold necklace and rudraksha bracelets on his wrist, applying a mark to the forehead of a man in a white shirt at close range. Behind them stands a pink-and-gold deity murti garlanded with red flowers, against an ornate carved temple backdrop. The bearded man holds a small paper slip in his hand during the blessing. a person is shown in a ritual blessing of a devotee in front of the deity; the cues are long dreadlocked hair, rudraksha bracelets, a gold necklace and rust-red clothing.2018-04-26 +1 copiesApril 13 20182018-04-13A bearded man in a long-haired orange-robed sannyasi kneels with eyes closed and hands pressed in namaste, while a dreadlocked, bearded man in saffron cloth places his right palm on the kneeling man's forehead in a blessing. The kneeling devotee wears a rudraksha mala and a gold necklace, and bangles on his wrist. Behind them, other saffron-clad sadhus with rudraksha and bead malas stand or sit, and a few rudraksha-wearing devotees are partly visible at the edges. The blessing figure has long dreadlocks and a thick beard and wears saffron cloth; whether he is the a person cannot be determined from appearance, so he is described by role only.2018-03-28 +1 copiesJune 24 20172017-06-24June 24 20172017-06-24A photograph of a bearded man with long dark hair in a rust-orange sannyasi wrap and a thick rudraksha-style mala blessing a clean-shaven man in a white shirt with an orange lanyard. The blessing man's hand rests on the other's forehead while the white-shirted man raises his own hand. Gold deity statues, a gold staff and a red curtain stand behind them. Swamiji (probable) is the man in orange and brown robes with the long hair and mala, giving a blessing, so swamiji is in_person. Only two physical people are visible.2016-09-09 +1 copiesJune 24 20172017-06-24A photograph of a ritual blessing inside a temple hall. A man with long dreadlocked hair, a saffron-orange robe, red-orange beaded bracelets, gold earrings and a gold necklace places his right hand on the head of a smiling young man with short curly dark hair and a beard, who is bare-chested with an orange-saffron shawl draped over his shoulder. Behind them a golden deity murti holds a brass oil lamp. Several onlookers in white dhotis and shawls, one with a brown and white beaded mala, and a woman in white with a camera stand nearby, with a red-and-white bindi visible. Probable Swamiji (probable) gives the blessing, identified by long swept-back hair, orange robe, gold ornaments and red-orange beads, while the recipient is a devotee receiving padapuja-style blessing.2017-07-07