How did Sai Baba utilize the conflict between Damu Anna and Mavshibai to impart a lesson?

Sai Baba masterfully used the quarrel between Damu Anna and Mavshibai as a teaching moment. Initially, as Chapter 24 notes, Baba would watch his devotees' quarrels neutrally. However, when their argument grew, he planned a "powerful trick" to cool them down. By humorously reframing Mavshibai's joke and asking Anna what was improper about taking a kiss from "the Mother," Baba instantly defused the anger. The deeper lesson, as the text explains, is that if the pure, loving intellect that exists between a mother and son had been present between them, the quarrel would never have arisen in the first place. Baba's intervention highlighted the need for guileless, familial love among his devotees, turning a petty squabble into a lesson on avoiding anger.