Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
October 22 2014

More like this

Open the gallery
Photograph of a seated congregation during a ritual or satsang in a bright hall with pale pink walls, white curtains and hanging colourful banners. In the foreground a man with a shaved head and glasses, wearing white dhoti and shawl with maroon-and-gold borders and a gold-beaded garland, sits with palms pressed together in prayer, gazing upward. Beside him, other men in white garments with yellow or maroon borders sit cross-legged on purple and orange mats, hands folded or raised. Brass plates with food offerings, a small plastic container and a sheet of paper lie on the floor. A camera on a tripod and a monitor stand at the left. Orange-robed figure partly visible at the lower left edge.2010-10-22September 21 20102010-09-21July 05 20112011-07-05A photograph of a seated group of shaven-headed men in white dhoti and shawl with red border performing a puja on mats inside a hall. The front man in the centre has white tripundra marks on his forehead and arms, palms pressed together in prayer, and wears a rudraksha mala. Brass plates, small oil lamps, bells, flowers and a bowl of yellow rice sit before them. Behind, a seated audience in white and yellow saris and white clothes watches behind a metal railing, with a red carpet and a plastic container of offerings at left.2010-09-30October 29 20102010-10-29A large group of devotees, mostly men in white dhotis and shawls with white sacred ash marks on their foreheads and arms, sit cross-legged on orange mats during a puja. In the foreground, two men with rudraksha malas have their hands pressed together in anjali; the nearest holds his hands folded while the man beside him sits with palms joined. Brass oil lamps, a brass thali with fruit, flowers and kumkum, and small brass vessels are arranged on the floor before them. Orange cloth hangings with decorative borders hang from the ceiling, and a row of steel railings separates the seated rows. Other participants in white clothes sit behind, some with eyes closed in meditation. No figure is identified as a person.2010-11-09October 09 20112011-10-09July 30 20112011-07-30January 15 20132013-01-15September 21 20102010-09-21October 20 20102010-10-20Photograph of a seated congregation at a satsang gathering in a hall. In the foreground a man in an orange saffron robe sits with palms pressed together in namaste, smiling. Beside him a younger man in white dhoti and shawl with a red-bordered cloth and rudraksha mala sits with hands joined. Other men in white ritual dhotis and shawls, some with shaved heads and some with rudraksha malas, sit with palms together. Small oil lamps flicker on the floor in front of the group, and a table with a cloth and a stand stands at the back right. Several people stand at the rear of the hall in white shirts.2011-02-02