Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 2: The Path of Understanding
Bhagavad Gita 2.42
यामिमां पुष्पितां वाचं प्रवदन्त्यविपश्चितः ।
वेदवादरताः पार्थ नान्यदस्तीति वादिनः ॥
yāmimāṃ puṣpitāṃ vācaṃ pravadantyavipaścitaḥ | vedavādaratāḥ pārtha nānyadastīti vādinaḥ ||
The unwise speak flowery words, Arjuna. Delighting in the letter of the Vedas, they declare that there is nothing else.
Modern context
Krishna warns against 'flowery speech': attractive promises that religion, or anything else, will deliver rewards if the right procedure is followed. His criticism is not of the Veda but of those who take its promises of reward to be the whole of it and say 'there is nothing more'. Any tradition can be reduced to a system for getting what one wants.