Naga Baba Avadhut Shri Krishan Puri Member of the Gymkhana Dasnami Sampradya Juna Akhada (Bhairon Akhada) Order

Portrait of a seeker who lives a life of an ascetic Sadhu by long apprenticeship and years of travel

In search of God become an ascetic

Shri Krishan Puri was born on 20.09.1963 in Vienna. In 1967 he moved with his family to Muttenz, in Switzerland, near the border triangle of Germany and France, the centre of the three Bölchen (mystical mountains) of the area, where he spent his youth. At 18, he traveled as a backpacker to India to find God and himself. In India there are thousands of Sadhus,the indian population revered and worship them as a holy men. The full life of privation is not for everyone. Shri Krishan Puri did this life with short breakouts, since his eighteenth birthday, he go on this long road to enlightenment, through all the ups and downs.

From seeker to Sadhu

To realize his dream of India, after finishing school, Krishan had first to earn the