According to the text, what spiritual benefits can a devotee expect from hearing and contemplating Sai Baba's stories?

Engaging with Sai Baba's stories offers profound spiritual rewards. Chapter 2 explains that through "hearing, singing, and contemplating my stories, devotion to Me will be born and ignorance will be destroyed immediately." Baba states that He is subservient to devotion coupled with faith. Listening with genuine feeling is said to cultivate this faith, leading to direct self-experience, bliss, and a state of lasting happiness. The ultimate benefit, as described in Chapter 2, is that the devotee gains knowledge of their true self, allowing the individual soul to find harmony with the divine (Shiva) and for the formless, dense Consciousness to manifest within them.