Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
December 28 2009

More like this

Open the gallery
A photo of a devotional music performance on a stage with a red backdrop. A young man at centre, bare-chested with white dhoti and purple-bordered cloth, sings while playing a wooden harmonium with a microphone in front of him. Rudraksha malas hang on his chest and white paste marks are on his arms. Seated behind and beside him are several men with shaved or short hair, bare-chested or in white dhotis, some wearing glasses, some with sacred thread and forehead marks. One older man on the left has a white beard and glasses. Microphones on stands surround the group, and a green cloth covers the floor with books and a bunch of white flowers nearby. A watermarked caption on the lower right reads 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam.2009-12-28December 28 20092009-12-28Photograph of a devotional music session on a red stage with a white flower arrangement behind. A bearded older man in glasses and a saffron-toned shawl with a beaded necklace sings into a microphone at left. Beside him, a man with a moustache and a white dhoti with a purple border leans on a wooden harmonium-style stand, singing, wearing a multi-strand beaded mala and bare chest with white sandalwood paste on his arms. Two younger men sit behind, bare-chested, wearing white dhotis and beaded or gold-chain necklaces, with vertical tilaka marks on their foreheads. Microphones stand in front of the singers.2009-12-28December 28 20092009-12-28Three men sit cross-legged on a green-draped stage before a red backdrop with a large painted figure, performing a musical or devotional session. The man on the left, bare-chested with a beaded necklace and white arm bands, plays a large barrel drum with coloured strings. In the centre a young boy, bare-chested with white sandalwood stripes on his chest and a white necklace, sits beside a water bottle. The older man on the right, bare-chested with a white beard and glasses, wears gold chains and sits behind a microphone beside a harmonium. Small framed pictures and a bouquet of white flowers rest on the stage.2009-12-28October 19 20152015-10-19A seated man with bare upper body, white dhoti and a white tilak stripe on his forehead sits cross-legged on a red stage carpet, speaking into a microphone on a stand while gesturing with his right hand. Beside him sits a row of seated men in white and pale kurtas and shirts, some with hands folded in namaste or resting on knees; one man in a striped blue shirt and a man with long grey hair in white clothes listen attentively. A palm-leaf mat lies on the floor in front, and orange and patterned hangings decorate the upper right corner of the hall.2010-12-28August 15 20172017-08-15A photograph of a seated group on a red-carpeted stage in a hall with a red backdrop and hanging colourful tassel decorations. A bare-chested young man with white ash markings on his forehead and arms, wearing white dhoti and a rudraksha mala, sits cross-legged speaking into a microphone on a stand, one hand raised. Around him sit about seven men in white kurtas and plaid shirts, some with hands folded in reverence, one wearing a dark dhoti and plaid shirt. A bundle of dried leaves lies on the carpet in front.2010-12-28Two bare-chested men sit side by side on a stage before a microphone on a metal stand, with a silver pedestal and flower garlands behind them. The man on the left, with hair tied up, a forehead tilak and a beaded rudraksha mala with a gold chain, speaks into the microphone. The man on the right, with a red-and-gold pendant and beaded mala, listens with his head turned toward the speaker. A dark red curtain and a golden background with colourful flowers frame the scene, and a white cloth is draped over the left man's lap.2013-07-18Three bare-chested men in white dhotis sit in a row on a red carpet, speaking or chanting into microphones on stands. The man on the left has his hair in a topknot and wears a beaded necklace; the others wear rudraksha-style malas and sacred ash marks on their chests and foreheads. Behind them stand garlands of red, yellow and white flowers and a green-and-pink textile backdrop with gold trim. No candidate for a person is clearly identifiable from appearance, so no one is labelled as him.2013-07-18October 10 20102010-10-10