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A three-panel photo collage from a hall with white walls, blue steel roof trusses and hanging colourful banners. Top panel: several men in saffron/orange robes and white-clad devotees move through the hall, with a cameraman filming on the right. Middle panel: a man in a white shirt and an older man in a pink shirt press palms together in greeting while a saffron-robed young man wearing an orange turban and a rudraksha mala stands at right, with other devotees in white and saffron around them. Bottom panel: a crowd of white-clad and saffron-robed people with a cameraman in the foreground. Several saffron-robed people wear orange turbans. No deity or ritual object is clearly identifiable.

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A four-panel collage of a devotional event in a hall. In the top-left panel, a woman in orange robes with flowers in her hair clasps hands with a man in white shirt and dhoti while others stand in prayer. The top-right panel shows a woman in an orange robe with a flower garland seated on a white-draped platform, receiving devotees kneeling before her, with attendees in white and yellow clothes. The bottom-left panel shows a woman in orange with a garland seated at a wooden platform beside a flower arrangement, as a man in white bows and touches her feet. The bottom-right panel shows a woman in orange with a garland embracing or greeting an older man in white, with more devotees in saris behind. Visible text in the corner reads a copyright line.2010-02-15A two-panel photograph from an ashram event. In the top panel, an older man in white with folded hands bows his head while a man in an orange shirt wearing a red and white floral garland places a hand on his head in blessing; a saffron-clad monk stands at right. In the bottom panel, a smiling man with long dark hair wears a red floral garland over an orange robe and waves to the crowd; around him are men in white dhotis and gold chains, a shaved-headed man in white and orange, a woman holding an infant in a blue blanket, and a monk in saffron at right. The archive copyright line appears in the lower right of the bottom panel. Overall the scene shows darshan and blessing with devotees and saffron-clad monks.2010-08-18October 10 20112011-10-10October 10 20112011-10-10July 29 20102010-07-29October 09 20112011-10-09December 25 20072007-12-25Outdoor Guru Poornima event under a white tent canopy at Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, Bidadi. A man in a white shirt gestures and holds a yellow cloth bag while speaking to a figure in a flowing red-orange shawl with long dark hair and a broad smile, who stands at the right edge of the frame. A young man in saffron robes and a garland stands between them, and an older sadhu with a long white beard and orange turban wears a white flower garland at left. A man in white with a garland and glasses stands behind, with a white-clad crowd and a blue-carpeted path with floral garlands in the background.2009-07-07October 09 20102010-10-09November 06 20102010-11-06January 18 20122012-01-18A hall with blue-painted roof trusses, ceiling fans and tall decorative patterned pillars holds a crowd of devotees in white dhotis and shirts. At centre, a figure in saffron-orange robes and an orange head wrap, with long hair and gold bangles, stands among devotees. A shaved-headed priest in a white dhoti with sandal marks on his bare chest stands to the left beside a tray of fruit and a red-cloth-covered offering box. A cameraman films at left. Multiple people are visible, all standing.2011-10-09