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Targeting Gandhi VIPs

The lengths that Prem Rawat’s followers will go to ensure that their master’s veneer of legitimacy  is maintained has been revealed to include arrant duplicity.

A London Legal firm,  Paul Robert’s Solicitors, serving as organisers for a Fundraising event claimed to be benefiting the Gandhi Foundation, sought the involvement of supporters of Prem Rawat; this same firm was behind the organisation of an event at London’s Guildhall  in  May 2007.  According to the London Evening Standard, a Trustee of the UK Élan Vital charity which promotes Prem Rawat, accountant Roland Klepzig,  wrote to selected followers of Prem Rawat regarding the Gandhi Foundation event in terms that:

  1. Attendees at the Gandhi Foundation event were, by arrangement with the organisers,  to view a DVD of Prem Rawat speaking.

  2. Attendees at the event were to be given ‘goody bags’ containing  a DVD of Prem Rawat speaking at London’s Guildhall, an authorized biography of Prem Rawat and a 34 page booklet promoting the Prem Rawat Foundation as a humanitarian charity.

  3. The event would be attended by diplomats, politicians, celebrities and very influential and wealthy business people who would be exposed to Rawat’s message for the first time.

  4. The event would be a “unique networking opportunity” at which followers could act as “discrete ambassadors” on Rawat’s behalf amongst this “most influential group of people”.

  5. Followers were encouraged to attend the event to secure it’s ‘success’ and to discretely provide support to Rawat’s message.

Although Rawat claims to be non sectarian, his discourses have frequently made reference to the Baghavagita, a work that is not only revered by fundamentalist Hindu’s who detested Gandhi but a work which is inimical to Gandhi’s pacifist stance. Rawat’s own lifestyle of opulence and consumption is diametrically opposed to everything that Gandhi stood for and for Rawat’s followers to seek to subvert the Gandhi Foundation event to their own ends seems not only dishonest but a grotesque insult to the memory of the ‘father of India’. 

In response to a newspaper article, spokesman for the UK Élan Vital, James Shaw said the  “fact is we are not a cult and we do not behave in cult-like ways”. The bizarre ‘entryist’ attempt that appears to have been encouraged by Mr Shaw’s colleague, Roland Klepzig, would seem to suggest that in fact Prem Rawat’s followers do behave in “cult-like ways”.

References.

1.  Gandhi Foundation

2. Paul Roberts Solicitors

3. Élan Vital

4. London Evening Standard Article dated November 30, 2007.  (Text)