What spiritual benefits are said to come from engaging with Sai Baba's stories?

Chapter 2 describes numerous spiritual rewards for those who engage with Sai Baba's life stories. The text states that by hearing, singing, and contemplating these narratives, "Devotion to Me will be born and ignorance will be destroyed immediately." This process is said to cultivate faith, to which Baba becomes subservient. Listeners are promised that self-experience and self-bliss will arise naturally, leading to a state of happiness. Ultimately, the devotee is said to gain knowledge of their true form, finding harmony between the soul and Shiva, and causing the formless, dense Consciousness to manifest. This outcome is equated with the entire goal of the Vedas.