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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 3]
kāma —to show how to execute the functions of a human being. The word  dharma  is meant for human beings and is never used in connection with beings inferior to human beings, such as animals. Unfortunately, without being guided by the Supreme Lord, human beings sometimes manufacture a process of  dharma  by concoction. Actually  dharma  cannot be made by man.  Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam.  ( Bhāg.  6.3.19)  Dharma  is given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, just as the law is given by the state government. Man-made  dharma  has no meaning.  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  refers to man-made  dharma  as  kaitava-dharma , cheating religion. The Supreme Lord sends an  avatāra  (incarnation) to teach human society the proper way to execute religious principles. Such religious principles are  bhakti-mārga . As the Supreme Lord Himself says in  Bhagavad-gītā :  sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja . The son of Mahārāja Nābhi, Rṣabhadeva, appeared on this earth to preach the principles of religion. That will be explained in the Fifth Chapter of this Fifth Canto.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Rṣabhadeva’s Appearance in the Womb of Merudevī, the wife of King Nābhi.”