April 23 2015 - Nithyanandapedia

Nithyanandapedia

April 23 2015

More like this

Open the gallery

April 02 2017

A photograph of a large seated audience in white shirts and white dhotis or trousers, many wearing rudraksha malas and name badges on lanyards. Foreground men laugh and smile broadly; one man in a striped grey-and-white shirt wears a red tilak mark and a pendant on his mala. Blurred orange and gold altar elements appear at the top of the frame. The crowd fills the frame, with more people seated behind the front rows.

A dense, seated crowd of men fills the frame at an evening or night satsang gathering. Most wear white shirts and white dhotis, and several wear rudraksha mala beads around their necks. A few figures wear darker or patterned shirts, including a yellow-and-white striped shirt and a maroon shirt. Many carry small name badges on their chests. A few faces are partly lowered in meditation or attentiveness, and one bald man in the lower foreground has his hands pressed together. The crowd extends beyond the top of the frame, with rows of people behind them.

A large seated congregation fills a hall during a ritual gathering. Most attendees wear white dhotis and white shirts, many with white vibhuti forehead markings and rudraksha malas. In the foreground, a man in a white shirt sits with eyes closed, and a young girl in a pink and multicolored floral dress sits beside him on a red mat. Behind them, a man in white with gold-bordered cloth and a rudraksha mala sits with a broad smile and glasses. Several people wear ID lanyards. Dozens more rows of devotees, many in white, extend toward the back of the hall beneath framed pictures on the walls and a standing statue on the left.

March 10 2013

June 22 2008

A seated audience of many men in plain white shirts and white dhotis fills a bright hall, facing toward the front. Several wear rudraksha malas over their shirts, and one man in the foreground has a saffron-orange shawl draped over his shoulder. Name badges hang on lanyards from some chests. Behind them, a blurred row of people in colourful saris and shirts sits near golden decorations and pillars. No speaker or throne is clearly visible in this frame.

A large indoor gathering of men seated closely in rows, most dressed in white shirts and white dhotis with gold-bordered cloth, many with white vibhuti or sacred ash marks on their foreheads and rudraksha malas around their necks. Several younger boys in the foreground wear bare-chested gold-bordered dhotis and rudraksha malas, and some wear lanyard identification badges. Behind them, a crowd extends back into a hall with tiled walls and wooden window frames. No speaker or person presiding is clearly visible in this frame, and no identifiable a person candidate appears in the image.

2015-08-09 +1 copies

April 23 2015

A densely packed crowd of men seated on the floor of a hall during a discourse, most dressed in white dhotis and shirts. A man in the front center wears wire-rimmed glasses and a white shirt, another front-left wears a mustard-yellow kurta, and a man at right has a white tripundra forehead marking and a sacred thread over bare chest with a gold chain. Some men wear rudraksha or gold neck chains, and one front-center man wears a green kurta with a red bindi and bangles. The audience sits attentively facing toward the stage, with pillars and gold-toned columns visible at the top edge.

2017-04-30 +1 copies

A large seated gathering of devotees in white kurtas and dhotis, eyes closed in meditation, filling a hall. In the foreground a man with a white forehead band and a rudraksha mala sits with head bowed; a bespectacled man in white with a rudraksha mala sits centrally, and several men on the right wear gold chains and small tilak marks. Many others fill the background, with a few children visible. No speaker or throne is clearly visible; the scene shows a satsang or meditation session with people sitting in silent stillness.

Photograph of a large seated audience at a night satsang event, rows of men in white shirts and white dhotis with rudraksha malas worn around their necks. A man in the centre foreground wears a white shirt, rudraksha mala and wristwatch, and crosses his arms. Beside him a man in a pink shirt with a purple lanyard sits with arms folded, and a man in a blue-and-white striped shirt and jeans sits with a red wrist thread. A bald older man in white with a red tilak and purple lanyard sits in front. Others wear orange saffron shawls. Overhead, strings of coloured lights and a red carpet are visible.