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A small tiled room with a brick fire pit (homa) at the center, where a flame burns with flower petals and offerings scattered around it. A shaved-headed man in white clothes and a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged behind the fire, with a sacred ash mark. Around him, seated on the floor, are several young girls and a boy in white with a forehead mark, some with long braids, one in a blue top, one in a green sari, all facing the fire with hands folded or holding offerings. An elderly woman in a red sari sits in the background by a doorway. On the right, a wooden table holds a brass lamp, flowers and a kalasha-like vessel beneath a framed portrait of a seated guru and a large deity print on the wall, decorated with marigold garlands. Shelves on the wall hold framed pictures and a radio. The image is a photograph.2006 - Kailasa India Sangha ActivitiesA homa is performed indoors in a small room with a white wall and a wooden door. A framed photograph of a seated, garlanded man in orange robes is displayed on a white-draped altar behind the fire, which is built from stacked yellow-wrapped blocks decorated with pink flowers. Two women in white clothing kneel at the fire, one feeding it from a steel vessel while the other tends it. Seated devotees on the floor, including a man in a white shirt, a woman in a green-yellow saree with folded hands, and a young girl in teal, watch the ritual. Metal bowls hold rice, flowers and dried leaves, and brass oil lamps stand beside the altar.Indoor homa ceremony in a plain room with peeling walls. A framed photograph garlanded with yellow and red flowers and a rudraksha mala shows a seated figure in orange robes before a banyan-like tree; a label reads "PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA". An orange folded cloth sits in front of it. Brass oil lamps stand on either side, and a brick-lined fire pit with pink flower petals holds offerings. A woman in white with gold bangles sits near the fire pit, and a man in white with a rudraksha mala sits at left beside women and children. Several people in white stand in a doorway behind them, and a woman in red with a mala sits at right.2006 - Kailasa India Sangha ActivitiesOctober 16 20102010-10-16 +2 copiesA photograph of a homa fire ceremony in a plain whitewashed room. Two women in white saris with gold borders kneel on a white cloth beside a small brick fire pit, where a bright flame burns. One woman in a white sari tends the fire while others sit nearby. On the left, a table draped with white cloth holds a framed picture of a deity in a red-orange garment, flanked by two brass lamps and fruit. Seated devotees along the right wall include a woman in a brown sari, a woman in a blue sari, a child, and a man in a white shirt and white trousers. Metal plates, coconut shells, and pink flower petals lie on the floor in the foreground.2009-10-10August 31 20122012-08-31A seated priest in an orange robe and white dhoti performs a homa at a brick fire pit on a white-draped table, holding a brass plate of yellow and orange marigold petals. He has a white vertical tilak on his forehead. To the left stands a young man in white with a rudraksha mala. Behind the fire pit, several young people in white clothes sit cross-legged, some with white tilak and beaded necklaces. A framed portrait on the wall, garlanded with marigolds and red flowers, shows a figure in orange seated in meditation, and a small brass deity murti in blue and gold sits on the table beside a red kalasha. Brass oil lamps and offerings surround the fire pit.2007-10-21A homa fire ritual in a room with a white brick fire pit at right, decorated with green leaves. Seated on a blue mat, a central figure in white clothes and an orange shawl presides as a man in white pours offerings and dishes of oil lamps line the mat. Several children in white or red clothes sit around the pit. Behind, a man in saffron wears a long beard and sits on a raised seat, and a long-haired figure in orange clothing sits nearby. A banner on the wall reads Nithyananda Gurukul with a portrait of a man in a white turban and gold necklace labelled Nithyananda Gurukul. Several more people in white and orange sit along the back wall.2006-10-02October 02 20062006-10-02 +1 copiesA photograph of a homa fire ceremony indoors. A central brick fire pit with bright flames is decorated with pink flower petals. A woman in an orange shawl over a white sari, wearing a dark beaded necklace, pours from a vessel beside the fire. A bald man in a white t-shirt and white dhoti sits in the foreground facing the fire, and a woman with white flowers in her hair and a gold-bordered white sari sits at right. Other seated women in white and gold clothing are visible, one in a yellow sari in the lower foreground. Behind the fire, a framed portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" is garlanded with yellow and orange flowers, flanked by brass oil lamps and a row of red petals. Framed religious prints hang on the wall at upper right and smoke drifts through the room.