---
type: Reference
bundle: shakta-darshana
bundle_version: "0.8.0"
id: tripura-rahasya
title: "Tripurā Rahasya — त्रिपुरारहस्य"
iast: "Tripurā Rahasya"
devanagari: "त्रिपुरारहस्य"
description: "'The Mystery of Tripurā': the Śākta tradition's great jñāna text, framed as Dattātreya teaching Paraśurāma: consciousness (as the Goddess Tripurā) as sole reality, taught through philosophical dialogue and teaching stories; the standing proof that Śākta tradition has a fully developed knowledge-path register."
text_type: "Śākta jñāna treatise (Jñāna Khaṇḍa, 22 chapters, is the extant philosophical core)"
period: "Post-classical Śākta literature"
tags: [tripura-rahasya, jnana, tripurasundari, consciousness, reference]
related:
  - /concepts/tripurasundari.md
  - /concepts/cit-shakti.md
  - /concepts/pratyabhijna.md
timestamp: "2026-07-01"
okf_version: "0.2"
license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

# Tripurā Rahasya -- त्रिपुरारहस्य

## Why This Text Is in the Bundle

The Tripurā Rahasya breaks the stereotype that Śākta tradition is ritual-only: its Jñāna Khaṇḍa is a sustained philosophical work in which the ultimate, named as the Goddess Tripurā (see [tripurasundari.md](../concepts/tripurasundari.md)), is taught as pure consciousness, and liberation as recognition of it, through dialogue (Dattātreya to Paraśurāma) and celebrated teaching narratives (the story of Hemalekhā, who leads her prince to self-inquiry, is the text's most famous vehicle: notably, a woman as the jñāna-teacher). Its consciousness-doctrine converges with the Pratyabhijñā register documented in this bundle's Tier 3 ([cit-shakti.md](../concepts/cit-shakti.md), [pratyabhijna.md](../concepts/pratyabhijna.md)) while remaining a devotionally Śākta text.

## Use in This Bundle

- [tripurasundari.md](../concepts/tripurasundari.md): her jñāna register
- [cit-shakti.md](../concepts/cit-shakti.md), [pratyabhijna.md](../concepts/pratyabhijna.md): Śākta-native consciousness doctrine converging with Trika analysis
- Bundle posture: evidence that "Śākta = ritual, Vedānta = philosophy" is a false division

## Editions

English translation by Swami Sri Ramanananda Saraswathi (published through Sri Ramanasramam; the text was repeatedly recommended by Ramana Maharshi) is the accessible standard; Sanskrit editions in Śākta text series.
