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There are many schools of thought in Hinduism that have their own philosophy and their own way to attain Moksha.
From this Hindu point of view, there are six major schools of orthodox (astika) Indian Hindu philosophy—Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā and Vedanta.
So what are they and what is the difference between each school for the foreign sophistry based research scholars?
Only tell about the major difference between each school of astika
This is taken from this blog
based on “A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy”, Chandradhar Sharma
The above groups Nyaya and Vaisheshika, Samkhya and Yoga. But there are subtle differences within this group also. Mimamsa can not be compared with Vedanta as such as the differences between Advaita and Dvaita are too many.
Difference between between Nyaya and Vaisheshika
Difference between Samkhya and Yoga
Kindly note the word heaven under the state of soul attaining salvation refers to Vaikunta and not swarga loka.
Kindly note that the word soul refers to jiva and not atman
