भक्त्युत्थास्ते च मूलशाखात उपशाखा इव भक्त्यैव धनादिलाभपूजाप्रतिष्ठाद्याः स्ववृत्तिभिः साधकचित्तमप्युपरज्य स्ववृद्ध्या मूलशाखामिव भक्तिमपि कुण्ठयितुं प्रभवन्तीति ।
bhakty-utthās te ca mūla-śākhāta upaśākhā iva bhaktyaiva dhanādi-lābha-pūjā-pratiṣṭhādyāḥ sva-vṛttibhiḥ sādhaka-cittam apy uparajya sva-vṛddhyā mūla-śākhām iva bhaktim api kuṇṭhayituṁ prabhavantīti |
(Mādhurya-kādambinī: 3.15)
“Also, those detriments (anarthas) arising from bhakti—the attainment of wealth and so on, [receiving] adoration, [gaining] prestige (pratiṣṭhā), and so forth specifically because of bhakti—are like sub-branches from the main branch [of a creeper], taint even the mind of a sādhaka with their own modes of being, and with their own growth cause constriction even of bhakti, the main branch [of the creeper from which they grow].”