What is the significance of Baba listening to the Ramayana just before his Mahasamadhi?

The act of listening to the Ramayana was a deliberate and final spiritual observance by Sai Baba. Chapter 44 emphasizes that Baba, "knowing the end was near," undertook this practice. For two full weeks, he listened with "focused contemplation," indicating it was a profound meditative act, not a casual pastime. The narrative links the completion of this fourteen-day period of listening directly to his passing on the day of Vijayadashami. This timing suggests that the focused immersion in the sacred story of Rama was the chosen method by which Baba prepared himself to consciously leave his physical body and attain the state of bodilessness.