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Şرې Calitanya  caritāmurta
[[Madhva-lila] Ch 8]
He clearly mentions in this verse that one must refer to the Vedic literatures and other supplementary literatures and follow the conclusion of the  Vedas . An invented devotional attitude simply creates disturbances in the transcendental realm. If a person overly addicted to family life takes to  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  or  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness to earn a livelihood, his activity is certainly offensive. One should not become a caste  guru  and sell  mantras  for the benefit of mundane customers, nor should one make disciples for a livelihood. All these activities are offensive. One should not make a livelihood by forming a professional band to carry out congregational chanting, nor should one perform devotional service when one is attached to mundane society, friendship and love. Nor should one be dependent on so-called social etiquette. All of this is mental speculation. None of these things can be compared to unalloyed devotional service. No one can compare unalloyed devotional service,  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness, to mundane activities. There are many unauthorized parties pretending to belong to the Śrī Caitanya cult, and some are known as:  āula ,  bāula ,  karttābhajā ,  neḍā ,  daraveśa ,  sāṅi ,  sakhibhekī ,  smārta ,  jāta-gosāñi ,  ativāḍi ,  cūḍādhārī  and  gaurāṅga-nāgarī .
Moreover, there are those who take the caste  gosvāmīs'  opinion of such parties as bona fide, comparing their opinions to those of the six Gosvāmīs headed by Śrī Rūpa and Śrī Sanātana. This is simply another cheating process. There are also nondevotees who compose unauthorized songs, who establish different temples for money, who worship the Deity as priests for salaries, who accept caste brahmanism as all in all and who do not know the value of a pure Vaiṣṇava. Actually the caste  brāhmaṇas  of the  smārta  community are opposed to the principles of the  Sātvata-pañcarātra . Furthermore, there are many Māyāvādis and those overly addicted to material sense enjoyment. None of these can be compared to a person who is purely engaged in preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Every Kṛṣṇa conscious person is constantly endeavoring to utilize different transcendental devices in the service of the Lord. Such a devotee renounces all material enjoyment and completely dedicates himself to the service of his spiritual master and Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He may be a perfect celibate, a restrained householder, a regulated  vānaprastha , or a  tridaṇḍi-sannyāsī  in the renounced order. It doesn't matter. The pseudo-transcendentalists and the pure devotees cannot be compared, nor can one argue that a person can invent his own way of worship.
The purport in presenting this verse necessitates explaining the comparative positions of the transcendental mellows known as  śānta ,  dāsya ,  sakhya ,  vātsalya  and  mādhurya . All these  rasas , or mellows, are situated on the transcendental platform. Pure devotees take shelter of one of them and thus progress in spiritual life. Actually one can take shelter of such spiritual mellows only when one is completely uncontaminated by material attachment. When one is completely free from material attachment, the feelings of the transcendental mellows are awakened in the heart of the devotee. That is  svarūpa-siddhi , the perfection of