How can those who are supposed to be self-realised “as good-as-God” gurus, representing Srila Prabhupada and connecting us to Krishna, be any of these things, if
they do not even know the most basic rules of behaviour?
Below we see GBC voted-in “as-good-as-God” diksa guru, HH Param Gati Swami, one of the Brazilian GBC members on the senior advisory group mentioned in the last story, apologising for something that even a new bhakta (devotee) joining the temple would know – that a sannyasi (renunciant) and guru should not dance at “rave parties” (discos):
“I would like to say some words on this “rave issue”: […] My intention, when I participated in these programs was to be more close to the devotees, “less distant”, specially of the young generation. […] Therefore I really regret to have done it and, please, tell them that I will stop to participate on this kind of events. [...] I did it in innocent and joking mood just to play a litle with the devotees. I’m really sorry.”
(HH Param Gati Swami, Text PAMHO:14863002, January 19, 2008)
As Lila Madhava Das, the devotee who exposed this affair and took action to force Param Gati Maharaja to stop attending such dance parties correctly said:
“Firstly “a innocent and joking mood just to play a little with the devotees”, is not usually a guru behavior. And secondly if he likes to preach to young people, obviously its better to give them some of Srila Prabhupada’s books than dancing with them.”
Param Gati Swami, who has tried to stop our IRM devotees in France distributing BTPs there, would do better to learn the basic rules of how a sannyasi should behave rather than trying to prevent us from spreading the truth about Srila Prabhupada.
