How does this chapter contrast the value of intellectual knowledge versus direct spiritual experience?

Chapter 26 of the Shri Sai Satcharitra strongly prioritizes direct spiritual experience over mere intellectual understanding. The author makes a specific plea to Sai Baba to make spiritual knowledge meaningful through personal experience, stating that without it, "the exhaustion of speech achieves nothing in spirituality." The text reveals the author's awareness that their own intellect is often mounted on false logic, which prevents them from solving the mystery of existence. Therefore, they ask Baba for the grace to experience this knowledge personally and to be granted the natural state of union, or Sayujya, which transcends theoretical learning.