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The Keeper's Dharma - By Max Harms

TL;DR

Peton has kept Sir Reginald "alive" since 1964: He forged signatures, staged proof-of-life visits, maintained the corpse, and redirected a century-long annuity to Palasagar after Sir Reginald died suddenly of an aortic rupture at 35.
Krishna frames the whole story as an audit of dharma, not just karma: He tells Peton that human and divine reviews are "the same audit in two registers," and that no deception can satisfy one while fooling the other.
The original prayer is the moral trap: Drunk and furious, Peton begged, "Just long enough for the village... then you can have me," and Krishna's verdict is that the first half was fulfilled years ago, but Peton never accepted the second.
Palasagar is the story's hardest fact: The fraud funded roofs, a school, a clinic, a doctor educated by the trust, and at least 200 deliveries, plus eventually a temple the village wanted, making the good undeniably real.
Krishna refuses to let good outcomes erase corruption: Peton helped people, but he also stole under a dead man's name, denied the legal heir in Durban any chance to choose differently, and corroded the social order he thought he was protecting.
The punishment is spectacularly literal: Krishna hurls the Sudarshana chakra into the neglected boiler, collapsing the mansion around them, killing the sham of Sir Reginald and leaving Peton barely alive for Felicity Chung's legal system to finish the job.

The Breakdown

A butler who has forged his dead employer's life for 50 years to keep money flowing to an Indian village finally gets audited by both a fiduciary officer and Krishna himself. The brutal twist is that the village has long since become self-sustaining, which turns Peton's noble fraud into a debt that both English law and divine justice now come to collect.