The Night Bo Diddley Got Krishna’s Mercy.
Gaura Das: I used to do Harinama Sankirtana with our godbrother Vivasvan prabhu in Tampa in 1993 , while I was maintaining The Bhaktivedanta Cultural Arts Center I opened in Clearwater Beach . We would do Harinama Sankirtana in an area where a lot of clubs and bars were. One night I thought I was seeing one of my teenage music idols “Bo Diddley” standing outside one of the clubs. I walked up to him and introduced myself and he confirmed that it was him. I told him how I used to enjoy playing his songs previously in my blues band, and complimented how much influence he had on The Rolling Stones, and popular music in general. He accepted my compliment graciously, thanked me, and I gave him a Bhagavad Gita As It Is. He thanked me for the book as well and gave a donation for the printing cost. I had always wanted to meet him in my youth, as I had also met Chuck Berry, but had no idea that one day I would be distributing Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is to him.