What are the spiritual benefits of engaging with Sai Baba's stories and presence, as described in Chapter 52?

Chapter 52 details numerous spiritual benefits from engaging with Sai Baba. It states that seeing Sai’s form destroyed the threefold afflictions of His devotees. The chapter recommends a practice for devotees: after a holy bath in the Godavari and taking darshan of the Samadhi, one should listen to the Satcharitra to calm the three types of afflictions. It also notes that when Sai told stories, listeners would become so absorbed they would forget hunger and thirst. The text claims that by looking upon this book with love, millions of sins will be dispelled.