Ravana got through Lakshmana's rekha. He did not get what he actually came for. The disguise bought him proximity, not the outcome. The Story In the Ramayana, Ravana doesn't walk up to Sita as himself. He knows what she'd do if the ten-headed king of Lanka appeared at her doorstep. So he disguises himself as a wandering sadhu — saffron robes, a begging bowl, the calm bearing of a holy man. Sita, raised to revere ascetics, breaks her own protective boundary — drawn by Lakshman
