The text mentions Baba listened to the Ramayana for two weeks. What was the spiritual significance of this activity leading up to his Mahasamadhi?

The act of listening to the Ramayana in his final days was a significant, deliberate spiritual practice for Sai Baba, not just a passive activity. Chapter 44 describes this not as casual listening, but as an act performed with 'focused contemplation' for fourteen continuous days and nights. This suggests a form of deep meditative absorption in the sacred story. The text frames this two-week period as the direct precursor to his passing, which occurred on Vijayadashami as soon as the reading was completed. This indicates that this intense period of listening was the chosen method by which Baba prepared himself to leave his physical body and attain the state of bodilessness.