The concept of consciousness in Upanisads and early advaita vedanta

In the article reveled, that conception of mind in Advaita Vedānta is determined by religious ideas of Vedas and Upanişads. Central concept of Advaitist philosophy of mind is the concept of Ātman as a «blind spot» of empirical consciousness, unitary in all individual persons. It has a sacral nature and makes cognition possible, being itself incognizable. The main problem in Advaitist discourse is that a person identifies himself with an empirical, changeable and determined level of consciousness. The solution is the identification of the Self with Ātman as the mind level, free of causal determination.