Did Lord Rama have to be separated from Sita due to Bhrigu Muni’s curse to Vishnu?
Hare Krishna Question from Bhuvanamata ji Did Lord Ram have to exile Sita because of a curse that he as Vishnu had received from Dhrugamuni. Can you please explain the past time and its rationality Thank you Answer Yes, in the Ramlila Ramlila is not just given only in the Ramayana, it is given in various other literature also and as long as that has been told by devotees of Lord Ram and it is compatible with the storyline of the Ramayana then those principles can be accepted so the story goes that when there was a fight between the demons and the devatas and at that time the demons being slaughtered by the devatas and Lord Vishnu was helping the devatas at that time the demons fled and when the demons fled they came to the ashram of Dhrugamuni who was not there at that time so then his wife she gave them shelter at that time so when she gave them shelter at that time she was approached by Lord Vishnu and Lord Vishnu told her that these demons are terrorizing the universe and for the well being of the universe they need to be killed, she said no they have come under my shelter, I cannot kill them so Lord Vishnu said no they will ruin the whole world if they are not killed so at that point of time what happened essentially was Lord Vishnu said that I have a duty to all of society and I have a duty to the whole world that for the protection of the whole world that I have to kill these demons so then when the Dhrugamuni's wife opposed entirely so at that time it is said that Lord Vishnu had to kill Dhrugamuni's wife so that he could go and kill the demons so now we have to understand that women are never to be killed but in extreme situations just like Lord Ram also hesitated before he killed Tathaka but at the exhortation of Vishwamitra Muni when he told that she was demon and she was causing great harm to Dharma to Brahmanas to people in general therefore she had to be killed so then Lord Ram in an exception situation did that so in similarly Lord Vishnu here it was an emergency situation and that's why he had to do this and one has to understand that even when one is given shelter the shelter has to be given to those who are worthy of shelter and those who are not they have to be punished especially those who are not those who are incorrigible that means those who are not ready to reform themselves it is important that they be punished so for the well being of society so because of the unfortunate sighting of Dhrugamuni's wife with the demons then Lord Vishnu had to do the needful so then later on when Dhrugamuni came there so Lord Ram, sorry Lord Vishnu killed the demons thereafter and freed the world from their burden but then Dhrugamuni came there and he was very upset he was outraged in a sense that Lord Vishnu had killed his wife and he cursed him just as because of you I have to be separated from my wife I curse you that you will be separated from your wife so the point here is that the Lord is not subject to anyone's curse but he honors the words of the brahmanas and because he honors the words of the brahmanas he accepts their curse so it is not just like in the Mahabharata Gandhari she cursed Lord Vishnu that your dynasty will be destroyed so Lord Vishnu said that your curse doesn't affect me but I'll accept your curse so similarly in this case Lord Ram, Lord Vishnu accepted the curse and because of this curse in a future life Lord when in a future life means in a future descent for the Lord is not alive it's a descent so thereafter Lord descended as Lord Ram then he had to be separated from Sita so there are multiple factors involved in such incidents and we have to understand the broad principle that whatever happens in the Lord's past tense is a Leela so the Lord accepts certain incidents to honor his devotees so it is not that the Lord is subject to the principle Lord is subject to anyone's curse but just as the Lord allows himself to be controlled by Mother Yashoda and bound by her similarly the Lord also allows himself to become subordinate to the curse of especially the Brahmins who are righteous religious and devotional people so this is a whole past tense which illustrates this point of how the Lord becomes subordinate out of his respect to the Brahmanas and accepts their curse.