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A photograph of a large display screen showing a multi-site video satsang with nine live feeds in tiled panels. Top row: a woman with a bindi in Alice Springs, Australia, and a man sitting on a red mat in a hall labelled Toronto Kailashram. Main grid: a Los Angeles Aadheenam room with people seated on red mats and a robed figure at the front; an Oklahoma Aadheenam with women in white and purple seated on a green carpet before a red-draped shrine; a Vancouver Aadheenam panel with a woman in red near a deity altar; an Ohio Aadheenam with a shrine of deities and seated figures in red; a Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram feed with a group in white clothing and blue chairs; and a Seattle Aadheenam feed with a figure in white seated near a portrait and a woman in blue on a rug. No one in the scene is identified as a person by appearance.

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A multi-panel video call collage of satsang participants from several KAILASA aadheenam centres. Panels show a woman smiling in Alice Springs, Australia; a seated man in a meditation pose at Toronto Kailasham in a large hall; a group seated on red cushions in the Los Angeles Aadheenam; and a group seated on a green carpet before a shrine with red drapes at the Oklahoma Aadheenam. The Vancouver Aadheenam panel shows a woman in orange robes before a framed image of a figure in orange, and a Seattle Aadheenam panel shows a seated woman in a blue top before a framed portrait. Other panels show seated devotees in white clothing at the Ohio Aadheenam and Guadeloupe Rameshwaram, the latter with a row of people in white and several people on chairs. a person Vedic Temple Chidambaram portrait appears in one panel. Participants are shown on screen, so they are not counted as physical people in this scene.2015-04-18A video-conference wall of nine tiled screens showing a satsang with participants from different centres. Top left, a Nithyananda Vedic Temple Seattle banner shows a man in a saffron turban beside a woman seated near a deity altar. Top centre, a woman with long light hair in a white top and rudraksha mala is labelled MaPooryananda and Alice Springs, Australia. Top right, a deity-filled temple room labelled Ohio Aadheenam and Ohio-Prayag. Middle left, a row of devotees in red and white clothes sits on the floor labelled Los Angeles Aadheenam. Centre, a woman in a red saree with rudraksha malas is labelled Phoenix Aadheenam, PHOENIX Kanchipuram. Middle right, a woman in a green saree is labelled Hyderabad Gupta Kashi. Bottom centre, several people sit on yoga mats labelled San Jose-Madurai. Bottom right, a man in red robes gestures before a gold-ornamented throne, labelled Self View. Bottom left, a white-clad man with rudraksha malas meditates beside a child, with a seated figure in a turban on a screen behind.2016-06-15June 15 20162016-06-15A photograph of a screen showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple KAILASA aadheenam locations, each tile labelled with a centre name such as Seattle Aadheenam, San Jose Aadheenam, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, New Jersey Omkareshwar, NY Aadheenam Queens, Los Angeles Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam and Dublin, Ohio. Tiles show a woman in yellow seated on cushions near a rug, two women in red and pink seated on black mats, people in a living room, a group in red seated before a deity altar in New York, a woman in red seated on a red cushion in Los Angeles, a woman seated on a rug in Toronto, a woman in a bed-like setting in Dublin, and a decorated shrine with a figure in white in Oman. The screen shows the tiles, not physical people in this room, so no one in the scene is counted; the visible people are on the screen.2015-10-18February 10 20152015-02-10November 10 20152015-11-10A photograph of a large video wall showing a grid of live video feeds from multiple ashram centres, labelled with place names such as Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Toronto Aadheenam, Redmond WA, Oman Aadheenam, Dublin Ohio, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Seattle Aadheenam, Oklahoma Somanatham, San Jose Madurai and St. Louis Aadhinam. Participants in white and saffron clothes sit on mats, meditate or perform yoga postures in temple-style rooms with deity murtis, oil lamps, purple drapes and floral decorations. One feed shows a woman with white forehead markings and a red bindi close to the camera, while a man in a headset speaks in a Redmond WA box. No one in the physical room is shown except the viewers of the screen.2015-11-10A multi-panel video-conference screen shows a grid of remote satsang sessions, each tile labelled with a city-temple name: Los Angeles ARUNACHALA, SINGAPURAM, SEATTLE CHIDAMBARAM, VANCOUVER PURI, OHIO PRAYAG and PHOENIX KANCHEEPURAM. Participants sit cross-legged on mats and cushions in white, saffron, blue and purple clothing, some with garlands, in rooms with deity murti, red drapes and flower decorations. In the bottom-right tile a bald man in orange robes with a rudraksha mala sits in meditation pose before a painted backdrop, shown on a screen rather than in person.2011-11-12A screen shows a multi-window video-conference grid of temple and ashram locations, each labelled with a printed caption: HYDERABAD, RAMESWARAM, TORONTO KAILASAM, LOS ANGELES ARUNACHALA, SAN JOSE MADURAI, OHIO PRAYAG, OKLAHOMA SOMNATHAM and CHARLOTTE SRISAILAM. In the Rameswaram window, a row of seated devotees in white, pink and green clothes sits on a mat, one man in blue palms together, with a banana-leaf offering plate before them. In the Toronto window a bald man in a dark robe stands, and seated devotees in saffron and white sit nearby. The Oklahoma window shows a deity altar with decorated murtis and a standing figure in white. Several people are visible across the windows, mostly seated in satsang or puja settings.2013-11-16 +1 copiesNovember 09 20142014-11-09May 08 20132013-05-08A large screen shows a grid of video-call tiles for a satsang, with labelled windows reading Malaysia Palani, Toronto Kailasam, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Los Angeles Arunachala, San Jose Madurai, Ohio Center and Seattle Chidambaram. Tiles show people seated on mats performing puja with oil lamps, a brass thali, flowers and kalasha-like vessels, and a man in white and orange seated before a red-draped altar. In the bottom-right tile a man with long hair, saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits before a gold-decorated backdrop, the screen content being the satsang broadcast. The photograph is of the screen, so the people on it are not physically present.2013-04-09