[edit] Nyaya on God and salvation
Early Naiyayikas wrote very little about Ishvara (literally, the creator God). However, later Buddhists in India had become from agnostic to strictly atheistic.
Nyaya
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one of the six darshana or systems of Indian philosophy; `logic'; recognition of the real spiritual experience by the omniscient mind ...
Nyaya and Vaishesika are schools primarily concerned with analytic approaches to the objects of knowledge, using carefully tested principles of logic.
nyaya [one of the six darsanas, the science of logic].
ojas essential energy.
okas home. [Ved.] ...
According to the Nyaya and Vaiseshika schools, God is the instrumental cause of creation, like a potter fashioning a pot of clay, but not the material cause of creation.
Nyaya: "System, rule; logic." A system of logical realism, founded sometime around 300 bce by Gautama, known for its systems of logic and epistemology and concerned with the means of acquiring right knowledge.
Similarly, there were the philosophical traditions of Charwaka, Jaina, Samkhya, Nyaya, Vedanta, Bauddha and others. So, the tradition of guru has no beginning and no end.
Six schools of thoughts:(1) Nyaya, (2) Vaisheshika, (3) Samkhya, (4) Yoga, (5) Mimansa and (6) Vedanta. Hundreds and thousands of spiritual leaders in its history from time immemorial were born on this land.
Over time, Vaisheshika, Nyaya, and Mimamsa have become somewhat obsolete and are not actively practiced.
Samkhya - One of the six systems of orthodox Hindu thought or Indian philosophy that accept the authority of Vedas. The other five are Vaisheshika, Nyaya, Yoga, Mimasa, and Vedanta.
 See also: Yoga, India, Vedanta, Danta, Vedas
  
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