Yajur Veda · Krishna Yajur Veda (Yoga Upanishad group) · 465 mantras
Tejobindu Upanishad
Tejobindūpaniṣad
Central theme: The "drop of radiance" — the longest of the Bindu Upanishads, mapping fifteen limbs of Advaita-yoga onto Patanjali's eight
A six-chapter Yoga Upanishad of 465 mantras, far longer than its Bindu cousins. Expands the eight limbs of Patanjali into fifteen Advaita limbs by inserting tyaga (renunciation), mauna (silence), desha (right place), kala (right time), mulabandha and dehasamya among others, and reinterprets each limb purely as a meditation on "I am Brahman." Chapter 1 is the most-quoted: the upadesha of Kumara to Shiva on the difficulty of nirvikalpa samadhi. Chapter 6 ("Atmanubhuti") is the longest Advaita poem in the entire Upanishadic corpus — almost three hundred verses of "neti, neti" culminating in "I am the Brahman alone." Beloved of Ramana Maharshi and translated by Pujyapada Swami Chinmayananda.
Tejobindu Upanishad 1.32
अहं ब्रह्मेति निश्चयः । अनात्मन्यात्मविज्ञानं नात्मा बुद्धिः शरीरकम्
Ahaṁ brahmeti niścayaḥ, anātmany ātma-vijñānaṁ nātmā buddhiḥ śarīrakam
"I am Brahman" — this is the firm conviction. Knowing the Self in what is not-Self is bondage; the body and intellect are not the Atman.
Every limb of yoga is the same limb — the recognition "I am Brahman," held under fifteen disguises.