@lizzie @anemone @nerthos I very much agree that dharma is divine, little p perfect, but perfect in the "perfect example of what it is" way that a saint can be perfected, not Perfect like God who is the absolute truth, all encompassing and infinite beyond all fathoming is. its a basic hindu tenet at least as far as I know that while God upholds dharma He/She is totally above it. So God may lie for instance in a place where a human can't (like to an evil person for the purpose of delivering the fruit of that persons karma, or to a good person with a greater plan in mind), not just because sin can't touch God who is unattached and harbors no malice, but because God is genuinely Good beyond the pre/proscriptions of dharma. for instance its pretty obvious that while God can kill a child with an infectious disease based on that child's karma, a human who is not Perfect and unattached like God cannot infect a child with a disease like God can while incurring no sin. its more than it being Gods station to kill as He/She sees fit, God is genuinely transcendently Good beyond common notions of good and evil. God is also nirguna (without the human notions of attributes) but thats another can of worms. its so hard to describe that thing from which all words turn back...