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Jaina culture. Master also has accepted all these three articles of faith and therefore when he called some persons dogmatic he was surely not referring to these three dogmas of Hinduism.
Persons who are determined to know God and relied on personal experience have always questioned the dogmas. The Gnostics believed that questioning ones faith was always important. They held that to know (gnosis) God was to seek deeper and honest meaning for ones life. This gnosis led to integral awareness of oneness of relationship to God and the world. The way of the Masters was always a spiritual journey, not a system of right beliefs. The traditionally or orthodoxically oriented persons have always tried to somehow pattern their personal knowledge to the dogmas of the mutts, missions or ashrams to which they belonged. They wanted always a precedent to quote and the names of accepted authorities like Adi Sankara or Bhagavad Ramanuja or Ananda Tirtha were freely and to a certain extent fearlessly used to substantiate their personal spiritual experiences.
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