What was Sai Baba's perspective on argumentation and intellectual debate?

Sai Baba held a very critical view of argumentation and intellectual pride. In the guidance provided in Chapter 2, he stated, "Where there is a mind for argumentation, there is abundance of ignorance and Maya." He taught that such a disposition makes a person unfit for self-knowledge and leads only to unhappiness in this world and the next. His specific advice was to not establish one's own side or refute another's, and to avoid engaging in what he called the "useless effort" of dualistic explanations. This teaching is contrasted with the author's own admission of once having a logic-driven mind and being prone to argumentation before understanding the Satguru's greatness.