Could God ever forget he was God? Amazingly, according to many Hindus, he could!
Through intense spiritual practices the king Ravana won a boon from Shiva that no god or any other supernatural being could defeat him in battle. They say power corrupts, and what that kind of power Ravana went a little crazy and started terrorizing heaven and earth Problem : Ravana was so formidable it never occurred to ask Shiva that a mere human not be able to kill him either.
So it was up to Vishnu to set matters right, but the only way through the loophole in Ravana's contract with Shiva was that Vishnu would have to renounce his divine identity and come to earth as a mortal man.
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