What are the spiritual benefits promised to those who listen to or read Sai Baba's stories?

The text outlines several profound spiritual benefits for engaging with Sai Baba's stories. As detailed in Chapter 2, the acts of hearing, singing, and contemplating these stories are said to foster devotion and immediately destroy ignorance. For listeners with true feeling, faith will blossom, leading to self-experience, self-bliss, and a lasting state of happiness. The ultimate reward, as mentioned in this chapter, is the devotee's attainment of knowledge of their true form, where the soul and Shiva find harmony and the formless, dense Consciousness manifests.