How can someone achieve self-knowledge and harmonize the soul with Shiva, according to this text?

The text outlines a devotional path to achieving self-knowledge. According to Chapter 2, the key lies in engaging with Sai's stories with faith and true feeling. By hearing, singing, and contemplating them, a devotee's ignorance is destroyed. This practice fosters faith, which in turn allows self-experience and self-bliss to arise naturally. The text states that through this process, the devotee will "gain knowledge of his true form, and the soul and Shiva will find harmony." This devotional approach is presented as the method to make the unperceivable, formless Consciousness manifest, fulfilling what is described as the entire goal of the Vedas.