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When the demons made this promise, the beautiful Mohini-murti had the demigods and demons sit in different lines so that She could distribute the nectar. She knew that the demons were quite unfit to drink the nectar. Therefore She cheated them and distributed all the nectar to the demigods.
When the demons saw this cheating of Mohini-murti, they remained silent. But one demon, Rahu, dressed himself like a demigod and sat down in the line of the demigods, beside the sun and the moon.
When the Supreme Personality of Godhead understood how Rahu was cheating, He immediately cut off the demon's head. Rahu, however, had already tasted the nectar. Therefore, although his head had been severed from his body, the head remained alive.
Because Rahu's head had touched the nectar, it became immortal, and Brahma accepted it as one of the planets. Since Rahu is an eternal enemy of the moon and the sun, he always tries to attack them on the nights of the full moon and the dark moon.
