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Is sin relative with reference to other souls and absolute with reference to God?

[Smt. Sudha Rani asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami. Thank You Swami for Your infinite love and kind guidance. Swami, You have said “Sin is relative with reference to other souls. But it is absolute with reference to God”. I couldn't understand it properly. Can You please elaborate. At Your divine Lotus Feet, Y. Sudha Rani.]

Swami replied:- I will explain this point with the help of an example. God Rama killed Vali by hiding Himself behind a tree because fighting with Vali from front side is impossible as per the boon attained by him. Vali was a sinner and hence, killing Vali from backside is justified. But, still, Rama took this as absolute sin and underwent its punishment in His next incarnation as Krishna. Therefore, God takes a relative sin (it means that it is a sin by itself, but, not a sin since Vali was a sinner and has to be punished) as absolute sin (sin by itself without reference to anybody) so that others will not imitate and exploit it. For example, a person decided his enemy (a good person) to be bad through his bad logic and killed the good person from backside since the good person is very strong and cannot be fought from front side. The bad person exploited this situation towards his advantage by making it a relative sin, which means that though it is a sin by itself, it cannot be sin with reference to killing a sinner. God made justice as injustice and underwent punishment to avoid the exploitation of His action and hence, took the sin in absolute sense avoiding the relative sense in which it is not a sin. Almost every soul has the nature of exploiting the action of God for selfish benefit. Hence, the over-intelligent soul takes the sin in relative sense to make it non-sin avoiding its sinful nature in absolute sense to escape its punishment.

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