40 The Nectar of Instruction

the feast openly expresses what he wishes to do. He then in-
quires from his business friend how he should act, and
sometimes presents are exchanged. Thus whenever there is
a dealing of priti, or love in intimate dealings, these six
activities are executed. In the previous verse, Srila Ripa
Gosvami advised that one should renounce worldly asso-
ciation and keep company with the devotees (sariga-tydgat
sato urtteh). The International Society for Krishna Con-
sciousness has been established to facilitate these six kinds
of loving exchanges between devotees. This Society was
started single-handedly, but because people are coming for-
ward and dealing with the give-and-take policy, the Society
is now expanding all over the world. We are glad that people
are donating very liberally to the development of the
Society’s activities, and people are also eagerly accepting
whatever humble contribution we are giving them in the
shape of books and magazines dealing strictly with the sub-
ject matter of Krsna consciousness. We sometimes hold Hare
Krsna festivals and invite life members and friends to par-
ticipate in the feasting by accepting prasada. Although most
of our members come from the higher rungs of society, they
nonetheless come and take whatever little prasdda we are
able to offer them. Sometimes the members and supporters
inquire very confidentially about the methods of performing
devotional service, and we try to explain this. In this way
our Society is successfully spreading all over the world, and
the intelligentsia of all countries is gradually appreciating
our Krsna conscious activities. The life of the Krsna con-
scious society is nourished by these six types of loving ex-
change among the members; therefore people must be given
