Tripura Rahasya

 

What is Tripura Rahasya?

"Once a devotee asked Bhagawan: “Swami, what is Tripura Rahasyam?” Bhagawan smiled and said, “Let me tell you a story.” He continued, “Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara once had a doubt. Now if we have a doubt we can go to our teacher, if great Masters have a doubt they approach Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshwara but if these Lords themselves have a doubt, whom will they approach? Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara approach the Shakti or Tripura Devi who created them, the Shakti that manifested them. Mother Tripura Devi humbly submitted and said, "Even I do not have answers to your questions".

“But I do know where you can find an answer to this question of yours. So she took Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara of that Brahmanda (universe) to a location. It had a huge gateway and she flung it open and in there they saw a long hallway.”

Swami then said, “On the both sides of the hallway there were thousands of thrones and the four legs of the thrones were Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshwara and Tripura Devi. These three Gods who had this doubt in their mind were stunned to see thousands of Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshwaras and Tripura Devis. They thought they were alone but then they were more inquisitive to see whom were they prostrating to. At the end of the hallway they saw a pair of beautiful Lotus Feet and when they craned their neck to see who that personality was, they saw Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is a Cosmic Avatar, He is the Adi Purusha who manifested Himself to become Shakti and that Shakti in turn manifested into many Tripura Devi’s and each one initiated a creation. Even science recognizes today that there could be several universes in parallel. There are many Brahmandas (universes) and the Adi Purusha (Primordial Being) who manifested the Adi Shakti to initiate creation, the Power who willed to manifest into many Brahmandas Itself came here on this beautiful Earth as a Cosmic Visitor.”

(Radio Sai, Talk by Sai Giridhar, Experiencing Sai - Here and Now)