The āstika schools

The āstika schools are:

• Samkhya, an atheistic and strongly dualist theoretical exposition of consciousness and matter.
• Yoga, a school emphasising meditation, contemplation and liberation.
• Nyaya or logic, explores sources of knowledge. Nyāya Sūtras.
• Vaisheshika, an empiricist school of atomism
• Mīmāṃsā, an anti-ascetic and anti-mysticist school of orthopraxy
• Vedānta, the last segment of knowledge in the Vedas, or the 'Jnan' (knowledge) 'Kanda' (section). Vedanta came to be the dominant current of Hinduism in the post-medieval period.