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A photograph of an indoor ashram setting with an orange-painted wall. In the foreground, a man in a saffron-orange robe with a red flower garland, with his head bowed, is receiving a silver offering vessel adorned with yellow and red flowers. Facing him, a man in a brown and blue plaid shirt presses his palms together in greeting. Behind them, a smiling man in white shirt and white dhoti wears a dark rudraksha-style mala and a pendant, and a bald man in white clothes with an orange shawl stands nearby. Another bald man in white with gold necklaces and an older man in white shirt are visible in the background. A printed banner with a purple bird logo hangs on the upper left wall, and a portion of a sign is visible on the right. The saffron-robed man with the garland is a person by appearance cues (long swept-back hair, saffron clothing, rudraksha-style mala).

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