The narrative of Tripura Rahasya unfolds through a layered series of dialogues, in which a few central figures carry the weight of the teaching. At the outermost level stands Śrī Dattātreya, the great sage who serves as the principal teacher and expositor of the nondual wisdom associated with Tripurā. His primary disciple in this framework is Paraśurāma (also called Rāma Bhārgava), who approaches him as a seeker and receives the highest instruction. Their exchange forms the main philosophical backbone of the text, with Dattātreya articulating the subtle doctrine and Paraśurāma functioning as the earnest questioner and recipient.

Within this overarching dialogue, the teaching is further deepened through an earlier transmission preserved by the sage Haritāyana. Haritāyana appears as a key narrator who conveys the “secret” doctrine of Tripurā and recounts exemplary stories that embody the same nondual insight. Through his voice, the text introduces another crucial pair of interlocutors: the royal couple Hemaleka and Hemachūḍa. Hemaleka, depicted as a spiritually realized princess, becomes the teacher in this inner drama, guiding her husband Hemachūḍa from worldly attachment toward self-knowledge and realization.

These nested dialogues—Dattātreya with Paraśurāma, Haritāyana as transmitter, and Hemaleka with Hemachūḍa—together shape the contemplative architecture of the work. Dattātreya’s discourse provides the explicit metaphysical framework, while Haritāyana’s narration and Hemaleka’s intimate instruction to Hemachūḍa illustrate how that same wisdom is lived and assimilated. In this way, the text presents nondual Śākta Advaita not merely as abstract doctrine, but as a living dialogue that moves from sage to seeker, from tradition to individual, and from philosophical statement to inner transformation.