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

According to Chapter 2, the benefits of engaging with Sai Baba's stories are profound and transformative for the listener. By hearing, singing, and contemplating His stories with faith, devotion is born and ignorance is immediately destroyed. Baba states that these stories serve as a "resting place for the soul." He promises that faith will arise in the listeners' hearts, leading to self-experience, self-bliss, and a state of happiness. Ultimately, the devotee is said to gain knowledge of their true form, achieving a harmony between the soul and Shiva, and the "unperceivable, formless, and dense Consciousness will manifest."