Sri Chaitanya Vani - Parivrajakacarya Tridandiswami, Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhava Goswami - This Passage Poetically Commemorates the divine appearance (birth) of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in 1486, which occurred during a lunar eclipse (when the shadow demon Rahu is traditionally said to swallow the moon). During the eclipse, the local townspeople gathered to bath in the holy Ganges River while loudly chanting the names of God—effectively inaugurating the widespread spiritual movement that would counteract the degraded age of Kali Yuga.