Does Chapter 26 value theoretical knowledge or direct experience more in the spiritual path?

Chapter 26 clearly prioritizes direct, personal experience over mere theoretical or intellectual understanding. The author explicitly prays to Sai Samarth to make spiritual knowledge meaningful through experience. The text includes the powerful statement, "without experience, the exhaustion of speech achieves nothing in spirituality." This indicates that simply talking about or intellectually grasping concepts is insufficient. The devotee's ultimate request is for the Sadguru's grace to grant the gift of the "natural state of union (Sayujya)," which is an experiential state of being, not just a concept to be understood.