What are the spiritual benefits of engaging with Sai Baba's stories, according to the source text?

According to the teachings found in Chapter 2, engaging with Sai Baba's stories through hearing, singing, and contemplation offers profound spiritual benefits. These actions are said to foster devotion and immediately destroy ignorance. Baba states that where there is devotion combined with faith, He is always subservient to the devotee. Listening to these stories with genuine feeling is intended to cultivate faith, leading to self-experience, self-bliss, and a state of happiness. The ultimate goal, as described, is for the devotee to gain knowledge of their true form, achieving harmony between the soul and the divine, and realizing the formless, dense Consciousness.