Why is personal experience considered so important compared to just intellectual knowledge in Chapter 26?

Chapter 26 strongly emphasizes that spiritual knowledge is meaningless without direct, personal experience. The author explicitly prays to Sai Baba to 'make this knowledge meaningful through experience,' adding that 'without experience, the exhaustion of speech achieves nothing in spirituality.' This indicates that simply talking about or intellectually understanding concepts like non-duality is insufficient. As expressed in the chapter, the ultimate goal is the gift of the 'natural state of union (Sayujya),' which is an experiential state of being, not a theoretical concept, granted only through the Guru's grace.