A collection of teachings and quotes from Tripura Rahasya. Tripura Rahasya is an ancient Hindu literary work in Sanskrit narrated by Dattatreya to Parashurama. It was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest works that expounded Advaita Vedanta philosophy. The supreme wisdom is that which ends the delusion that anything exists apart from myself (Mother Goddess Shakti). The fruit of this realization is fearlessness and the end of sorrow. When one realizes that all the limitless universes are a fraction of an atom in the unity of my being, that all the numberless lives in the universes are a wisp of vapor on one of my breaths, That all triumphs and tragedies, the good and evil in all the worlds, are merely games I play for own amusement, Then life and death stand still, And the drama of individual life evaporates like a shallow pond on a warm day. Only those who do not need to engage in action are happy; they are perfectly content and self contained, a