Tripura Rahasya

The Tripura Rahasya (Devanagari: त्रिपुरा रहस्य, Tripurā Rahasya), also called the Haritāyana Samhitā, is a medieaval (11th-17th century CE)^[1] tantric Shakta Sanskrit text.^[2] The title has an ambiguous meaning, translated variously as The mystery beyond the three cities, The mystery beyond the trinity, or The secret of the supreme Goddess. Tripura refers to the 'three cities' of consciousness, namely waking, dreaming and deep sleep, but also to the goddess Tripura Sundari, the prime consciousness underlying these three states. It details the path to liberation, as taught by Dattatreya to Parashurama.^[3][4]