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A smiling man in a deep red-orange silk dhoti-style garment with gold borders and a matching red-orange turban adorned with a jewelled ornament stands in a hall, raising his right hand in greeting while wearing a long rudraksha mala, gold armbands and bangles, with white tilak marks on his forehead and arm. Several people in white shirts and dhotis stand before him with palms pressed together in namaste, one with a rudraksha mala around his neck. Other devotees, some in white and some in saffron, fill the background beneath ceiling lights and red banners. a person: the figure in the red-orange turban and rudraksha mala is a candidate a person based on these cues, shown receiving devotees in an ashram hall.