Once Hari-sauri, for his second volume of his diary, he wrote to a Professor Tom Hopkins, who is a very good friend of ISKCON, been following ISKCON since the mid-‘60s and has very good feelings. So he asked him to write a foreword to his second volume, and this was over the phone. I think Hari-sauri was in Alachua, and Tom Hopkins was…he’s a professor of the Sanskrit Department somewhere, I can’t remember the university. Anyway, Tom Hopkins just laughed and laughed over the phone. He said, “You know, the Christians have a few books about Jesus, and the Muslims have some books about Mohammad. But you Hare Krishnas, you have a book for every day in the life of Srila Prabhupada.” (Sridhara Swami)

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