Dharma and adharma are not examined where nothing exists

From the ultimate perspective, the distinction between dharma and adharma — right and wrong, virtue and vice — is as conventional as the difference between the right bank and the left bank of a river: it depends on where you stand. This is not moral license; it is ontological description. Ethical conventions operate at the relative level where self and world appear real. At the absolute level, where only consciousness exists, there is no subject that acts and no object acted upon. Vasiṣṭha does not abolish ethics — he transcends it.