Advaita Vedanta

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"The Development
of Religious Consciousness " by Swami Krishnananda in chapter 3
discusses the The history of religious consciousness synthesized by
Kant, Hegel, Descartes and Sankarcharya.
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/conscious/consc_3.html
The second is an essay on Consciousness by Swami Satswarupananda of
Ramakrishna Mission the Vedantic and this essay specifically explains
the Upanishadic point of view of Self-Consciousness .
http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/magazine/vk/2001/9-3-1.asp
http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/magazine/vk/2001/10-4-1.asp

Consciousness from the Visistadvaita Vedanta point of view is
provided by Prof. K. R. Sundararajan :
http://www.here-now4u.de/eng/self-consciousness_in_ramanuja.htm

The western Philosophical thoughts on Consciousness are provided in
the following two sites. The Wikipedia site provides both from the
religious and philosophical aspects with greater details. The
Stanford University site provides an essay on consciousness in text-
book style very clear and concise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscio:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#2usness