The absolute necessity for practicing Vaishnavas to do their

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> Madhva Acharya in one of his Gita commentaries says (unfortunately I do

> not have the verse at hand) that the Gita teaches two things: (1) to

> perform one's karma or sva-dharma and (2) to perform bhagavad-bhakti.

 

I found the text of Srila Madhva where he says that.

 

sva-vihita-vRittyA bhaktyA bhagavad-ArAdhanaM paramo dharmaH.

 

My rendition of this verse as quoted above is based on the traditional

mAdhva explanation by a mAdhva scholar shrI vishvesha tIrtha (from one of

the aShTa-maThas) in an English book published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

entitled gItA-sAroddhAra. The book is on the essential teachings of the gItA

based on the commentaries of shrIla madhva and shrIla jayatIrtha.

 

yhs vgd