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A large seated group of devotees with palms pressed together in namaste during a satsang or puja in a hall with wooden doors and framed pictures on the walls. Many women in orange and rust-coloured sarees and salwar kameez wear rudraksha malas, with hair in buns and some with white tilak marks. Men in white dhoti and shawl with rudraksha malas and tilaks sit in the foreground. Steel drums stand on a red-draped table at the back, and a man in saffron and white at the rear right sits near a small table.

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