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As described in the famous epic of Ramayana, when Ravana abducts Sita and tries to
lure her, she does not succumb to him. For she loved Rama, her husband, with all her heart.
Knowing Ravana's skill for disguise, his ministers came up with a clever suggestion. They advised him to appear before Sita in the form of Rama so that she would be attracted to him. But Ravana realized that though the ministers possessed external knowledge of arts and skills, they were not aware of Rama's strength. He stated that to take on the form of another person, one has to first medi
tate upon that person. But as soon as he would begin to meditate upon Rama, his mind would become like Rama's. And when the mind became like Rama's, then it could not entertain sinful thoughts of abducting another woman or looking upon her as an object of lust. Such is the
nature of the mind.
