The book promises that 'self-bliss will come naturally' just from hearing these stories. This sounds like an exaggeration. What is the supposed mechanism for this profound transformation?

According to the source material, the transformation is a multi-step spiritual process rooted in faith. Chapter 2 explains that the starting point is listening to, singing, and contemplating Sai Baba's stories. This practice is said to give birth to devotion and destroy ignorance. Sai Baba asserts, "Where there is devotion with faith, I am always subservient." This devotion, cultivated by hearing the stories with true feeling, then causes faith to arise in the listener's heart. It is through this faith that "Self-experience and self-bliss will come naturally," leading to a state of happiness, knowledge of one's true form, and the manifestation of the formless Consciousness.