Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura writes in his commentary to Srimad Bhagavatam 11 Canto:
[One may claim:] “Learned persons who can destroy doubts can
certainly determine the truth.” [But actually:] No, they simply quarrel among
themselves. Some maintain, with proof, that the world is real. Some proclaim that the world is false,
attacking the first claim. They show lack of knowledge of Paramätmä, because
Paramätmä, understood only by realization, is beyond logical argument. A person fixed in a goal other than Me, or a
person who is fixed in defeating others’ arguments, achieves no result, such as
piety, sin, Svarga or hell. Though it is pointless, that person does not stop
arguing. This is because of his nature
arising from mäyä.
“I offer respects to the great Lord of eternal qualities, whose
material energy is the cause of agreement and disagreement among those who make
philosophies and then argue with others, whose material energy continually bewilders
them as to the real nature of ätmä.” – [SB 6.4.31]
[Nietzsche says in this connection in “Beyond Good and Evil”: Suppose Truth is a woman, what then? Would’t have we not a good reason to suspect that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, had a poor understanding of women; that the dreadful seriousness and awkward pushiness with which they have so far habitually approached Truth are clumsy and inappropriate ways to win over a woman. It’s clear that Truth did not allow Herself to be won over and all forms of dogmatism are nowadays standing there dismayed and disheartened, if they are standing at all.]
Moreover, though they have attained a path to achieve Me after
many births, they fall from that path. Those who know the path to attain Me,
after understanding the meaning of the scriptures, take to arguing, have their
intelligence turned away from Me (parävåtta-dhiyäm),
who look upon My devotees and no others with mercy (sva-lokät). My
devotees are not eager for arguments. They make their lives successful by
thinking of Me only and not about argumentation. It is hinted that one should
not waste one’s life by inquiry about truth in the world through arguments.
