What are the spiritual benefits of listening to Sai Baba's stories, as explained in Chapter 2?

According to Sai Baba's words in Chapter 2, the act of hearing, singing, and contemplating his stories yields profound spiritual benefits. He promises that this practice will cause devotion to be born and ignorance to be destroyed immediately. For those who listen with true feeling, faith will arise in their hearts, leading naturally to self-experience and a state of happiness and bliss. Baba explains that through this process, a devotee gains knowledge of their true form, allowing the soul and Shiva (the divine) to find harmony. The ultimate result is the manifestation of the "unperceivable, formless, and dense Consciousness," which Baba equates with achieving the entire goal of the Vedas.