Text Four
39
TRANSLATION
Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one's mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasāda and offering prasāda are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another.
PURPORTE
In this verse Śrila Rūpa Gosvāmī explains how to perform devotional activities in the association of other devotees. There are six kinds of activities: (1) giving charity to the devotees, (2) accepting from the devotees whatever they may offer in return, (3) opening one's mind to the devotees, (4) inquiring from them about the confidential service of the Lord, (5) honoring  prasāda , or spiritual food, given by the devotees, and (6) feeding the devotees with  prasāda . An experienced devotee explains, and an inexperienced devotee learns from him. This is  guhyam ākhyāti prcchati . When a devotee distributes  prasāda , remnants of food offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in order to maintain our spirit of devotional service we must accept this  prasāda  as the Lord's grace received through the pure devotees. We should also invite pure devotees to our home, offer them  prasāda  and be prepared to please them in all respects. This is called  bhuṅkte bhojayate caiva .
Even in ordinary social activities, these six types of dealings between two loving friends are absolutely necessary. For instance, when one businessman wishes to contact another businessman he arranges a feast in a hotel, and over