What are the stated benefits of hearing or reading Sai Baba's life stories?

The text from Chapter 17 highlights several significant benefits of engaging with Sai Baba's life stories. It states that by listening to these stories with great respect, "the poverty of the listener and the speaker is destroyed, and the bad days of all vanish." The chapter emphasizes that Baba's extraordinary deeds amazed everyone and that one could find comfort and humility just by witnessing them. These stories are described as a "free gift" of happiness, and the chapter encourages readers to study and contemplate them daily to cross the ocean of worldly existence.