What do you mean by Triputi?

Triputi means the knowledge of the three items: the Lord who is the goal, the path to please the Lord and yourself.

The true knowledge of these three items is:

1. Kowing that the Lord is always available for a human being in the human form and you can get complete benefit only from such a human form of the Lord. You must also have the knowledge of the characteristics of the Lord in human form to identify Him (Manusheem Tanumaasritam—Gita).

2. Knowing that the only path to please the Lord is the sacrifice of all the worldly bonds. The root bond of all these bonds is the bond with money, which is called ‘Dhaneshana’ since if money is not present, all the other bonds will break (Dhanena Tyagenaike).

3. Knowing that you are the soul, which is a bundle of the three qualities, mixed in different proportions (Naanyam Gunebhyah Kartaram—Gita). You must differentiate yourself from the Lord since the Lord is beyond the qualities (Gunaateethah—Gita). You are the colored shirt and the Lord is the person, who is wearing the colored shirt.

You can learn about the importance of human form of God from Hanuman, who recognized and worshipped Lord Rama and from the Gopikas, who recognized and worshipped Krishna. Both Rama and Krishna were the human incarnations present during the lifetimes of Hanuman and the Gopikas respectively. They never worshipped statues of the previous incarnations or the forms of the Lord, which are in the upper world like Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Similarly you must learn the path of sacrifice from Sakthuprastha who sacrificed even the little flour which he was going to eat after fasting for ten days. You must also learn that you are only a soul and not the Lord from Hanuman. You are nothing before Hanuman in knowledge, devotion and power. When this greatest hero [Hanuman] in the world surrendered to the Lord saying that he is the servant of the Lord (Daasoham Kousalendrasya), you are after all a small baby-monkey before Him. Therefore you should know that you are not the Lord and surrender to the Lord as a humble servant. In fact you should become the servant of His servant (Hanuman) before you can become a direct servant of the Lord (Daasasya Dasah).