What spiritual benefits did Sai Baba say would come to those who listen to or read his stories?

In Chapter 2, Sai Baba details the profound spiritual rewards for engaging with his stories. He states that by hearing, singing, and contemplating them, devotion will blossom and ignorance will be immediately destroyed. He promises that for those with faith, "Self-experience and self-bliss will come naturally, and a state of happiness will be attained." This process is said to lead the devotee to gain knowledge of their true form, creating a harmony between the individual soul and the divine, referred to as Shiva. Ultimately, Sai Baba suggests that his stories have the power to make the unperceivable, formless Consciousness manifest, which is the entire goal of the Vedas.