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April 17 2011

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A shaved-headed priest in saffron-orange robes with white sacred markings on his arms performs an aarti before framed portraits draped with red garlands. An oil lamp with a visible flame sits on a green leaf before the photos, and a bronze lamp stand stands nearby. The framed portraits show a man in orange seated in meditation and a woman in white. Thatched bamboo walls, a patterned cloth-draped altar, and a striped orange and yellow curtain form the setting. Several people with hands folded in prayer, dressed in white, stand behind the rail, and a brass pot sits on a table at left.2011-04-17April 17 20112011-04-17April 17 20112011-04-17Photo of a night ritual under a bamboo-and-thatch canopy. A shaved-headed priest in orange robes, with white forehead markings, white arm bands and beaded rudraksha necklaces, holds a lit oil lamp and a small brass vessel. Beside him another man in orange stands near the flame. Behind them a framed portrait of a smiling figure in orange robes, garlanded with red flowers, sits on a draped table with a patterned cloth. Men in white shirts and dhotis stand around the wooden railings and watch.2011-04-17A photograph inside a temple sanctum showing a young man in a saffron-orange turban and matching saffron shawl with gold border, holding a silver aarti plate with a lit flame toward a shrine behind a white lattice grille. Garlands of white and pink flowers hang around the shrine, and an older bearded man in saffron dhoti with white forehead markings stands beside him with hands joined. Two more bearded men in saffron cloth and rudraksha malas stand in the background. a person (the page's candidate) is the young man performing the aarti, identified only by a turban, saffron shawl with gold border and rudraksha mala; this is an appearance-based label, not a certain identity. The scene reads as aarti or puja at a temple shrine.2003-12-19November 24 20062006-11-24January 22 20102010-01-22July 01 20142014-07-01Outdoor stage event under a white tent with a red stage carpet and a red banner reading Nithyananda in Tamil script. A man in white shirt and white dhoti stands at left and reaches toward a tall brass lamp decorated with white jasmine garlands and red flowers. Beside him an orange-robed man wearing an orange turban and rudraksha mala holds his hands together. On the right a barefoot man in orange robes with long hair lights or tends the lamp with his hands, while a man in white holds a sash behind him. Behind them stand a woman in white and an orange-robed attendant near a side table with flower offerings. Palm trees and a thatched hut are visible beyond the stage, and cooling units and potted plants sit along the edge.2010-02-18A photograph of a temple-style interior where an elderly bald man with a bare chest, wrapped in an orange-brown cloth with gold border, wears a long rudraksha mala with a gold pendant and gold armlets. He reaches toward a small metal vessel held by a man in a white dhoti with a red-gold border and a white upper cloth, who bows his head. Around them, devotees in orange, red and saffron garments and white tilak stand close, several with shaven or short hair. Behind them hang a framed picture of a seated saffron-clad sadhu with a long beard and a framed grid of red-toned photographs on the wall.2012-05-24 +1 copiesPhoto of an indoor covered hall with a thatched roof. A man with long swept-back dark hair and a white vertical forehead mark wears an orange saffron robe and a gold bead necklace, standing and facing a man in a white shirt and white dhoti who stands with his back to the camera. The saffron-robed man, who has distinctive long hair, orange robe and gold necklace, is an appearance-based probable candidate for Swamiji. Behind them, priests in white dhotis with red borders and a man in a white and gold-bordered dhoti stand near a green sign reading PLEASE and a pink banner with Tamil text. A man on the right holds a mobile phone.2011-01-16June 22 20142014-06-22