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A photograph of an indoor ashram gathering on a grey concrete floor with a yellow line painted across it. A woman with long dark hair in an orange sari sits at left near a microphone stand, facing a seated man in white robes and a white shawl with a dark sash. Around them, devotees in white clothing sit cross-legged, several with long dark hair. In the foreground, rows of silver and brass oil lamps and ritual vessels are arranged on the floor, and a tall black lamp stand with tiered cups stands nearby. Wooden slats hang on the left wall, a colourful embroidered banner hangs on a yellow scaffold, and a brown double door sits behind. The date 22 12 2005 appears in red in the lower corner. a person's presence is not established by appearance here, so the seated man in white is recorded as a devotee-level figure.

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