The meditation is followed by a pooja. Sri Sri Ravishankar performs the Shiv Pooja, followed by a session of bhajans. This is the high point of the evening.
Photographers asembled before the stage are asked to move. "Guruji will go into a different state and might also go into a trance. It is not supposed to be photographed," says one of the organisers.
The bhajans pick up tempo. The devotees sway, trance-like, as they sing along.
As the bhajans end, Sri Sri Ravishankar goes into a trance. The crowd comes alive. It is for this that they have been waiting all evening.
Soon he descends from the stage and gets onto a car. There is a rush as he drives around the ground, throwing garlands and petals into the crowd. Everybody wants a share of the blessed garlands and petals.
Once he returns to the stage, there is another scramble.
This time, it is for the prasad the devotees can take with them. A symbol, as it were, of the divinity they believe they have witnessed this evening.
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