THIRUPPAVAI | DAY 18 | VIVEKHA LOGANATHAN | AANDAL THIRUPPAVAI

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The Thiruppavai (Tamil: திருப்பாவை) is a Tamil devotional poem attributed to the female poet-saint Andal (also known as Nachiyar, Kodhai or Goda Devi). It consists of thirty stanzas (paasurams) in praise of Thirumal (a manifestation of Lord Vishnu). It is a part of Divya Prabandha, a collection of the works of the twelve Alvars, that is considered an important part of the devotional genre of Tamil literature. In Thiruppavai, Andal gives a universal call to all people to recite the name and glories of Lord Vishnu.
DAY 18:
In the last verse Andal tried to wake up Kṛṣṇa through the proper channel of first waking Nandagopa, followed by Yasoda, then Balarama and Kṛṣṇa but still failed in Her attempt; Then She remembered the necessity and efficacy of approaching the Lord through the mediation of His consort, Nappinnai and hence wakes up Nappinnai in this 18th verse. Fire can be extinguished with water, but to cool water when it becomes hot, water itself will serve the purpose. Similarly we need the divine Mother to mediate between the Lord and the Jiva but no mediation is required for us to approach our divine Mother. She is always filled with endless causeless grace on all of us. The need for mediation by the divine consort to get the grace of the Lord has been insisted in many places in Srimad Ramanyana and other scriptures;
Nappinai, is the incarnation of Nila Devi, one among the three consorts of the Lord in Srivaikunta; The foremost among the three is Sri Mahalakshmi; Bhoo Devi and Nila Devi aid in the pleasure of the Lord and the divine Mother (Sri Devi); When Sri Devi is considered to be a Vaishnavi (who surrenders to the Lord alone) Bhoo and Nila Devi’s are the foremost Srivaishnavas (as they surrender to both perumal and piratti). So, as falling in the Feet of Srivaishnavas are considered more sacred, Andal now proceeds to wake up Nappinnai piratti.