A Perfect Living Master · 1926 – 2020
The journey within,
preserved as a
living archive.
Talks, photographs and teachings of Ishwar C. Puri — a lifetime spent pointing seekers back to the one place the search ends: inside themselves.
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A life turned inward
Ishwar Chander Puri was born in Lahore in 1926 and initiated at the age of eight by the great master Hazur Baba Sawan Singh at Dera Baba Jaimal Singh. He served a distinguished career in the Indian Administrative Service before making his home in the United States.
For over five decades he spoke — in living rooms, community halls and conference centers across the world — never charging, never founding a religion, always returning to the same simple insistence: that the truth a seeker looks for is already seated within.
"The spiritual path is not a journey to a distant place. It is a shift of awareness — you are already there."
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Moments from the satsang
Addressing seekers — the talks were always free, always open.
"Truth is not taught. It is caught — in the company of those who live it."
Community meetings in Grayslake and Palatine, Illinois.
Question and answer — no question was ever too small.
A lightness of being — humor was part of the teaching.
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Words that remain
