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A dining hall with a white tent ceiling and yellow-and-blue patterned pillars. Seated devotees in saffron and orange robes eat from banana-leaf plates at long tables covered in floral cloths, with bottles of water and small bowls before them. A long-haired sannyasi in orange robes and a rudraksha mala stands at right, smiling and gesturing toward the seated monks. Another orange-robed person and a man in white with a saffron shawl stand nearby, and a white-clad figure with a yellow shawl appears at far right. A sign on a pillar reads about maintaining silence and not allowing cell phones or photography. Probable Swamiji (long swept-back hair, orange robes and rudraksha mala) is standing at the center-right, appearing to serve or greet the seated devotees during the meal.

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