Hinduism refers to himself as Sanatana Dharma, eternal law. This term is more generally a legal aspect. It refers to laws governing the world at the macrocosm as microcosm. Violate these laws leads to an imbalance which threatens the cosmos, at macro cosmic as microcosmic. As Indian society is governed by laws defining the duties of each according to his caste, and the fact that violate these laws, in addition to an imbalance in society, is supposed to lead to an imbalance and destruction of the universe in a whole. This partly explains why, despite their elimination at the legislative level in the Indian constitution, castes are still present in India today.

In addition to the duty according to caste, Dharma also fixes the missions of each of the four stages of life.

These laws are subject to treaty or dharmasastra, including the most famous is probably the Laws of Manu or Manusmriti.

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