What are the spiritual benefits of hearing, singing, and contemplating Sai Baba's stories?

Engaging with Sai Baba's stories offers profound spiritual benefits. According to Chapter 2, by hearing, singing, and contemplating these narratives, devotion to Baba is born and ignorance is immediately destroyed. Baba assured that where there is devotion coupled with faith, He is always subservient. This practice is said to cultivate deep faith in the listeners' hearts, which naturally leads to self-experience, self-bliss, and a state of happiness. The devotee gains knowledge of their true form, and a harmony between the individual soul and the divine (Shiva) is established. Ultimately, the unperceivable, formless, and dense Consciousness manifests, which is described as the entire goal of the Vedas.