What is the deeper meaning or moral lesson behind the story of the quarrel between the two devotees?

Though the story of the quarrel seems small, Chapter 24 explains that there is a deeper lesson for discerning listeners. The narrative concludes by highlighting the nature of pure affection. It suggests that if the kind of innocent, loving intellect that exists between a mother and son had been present between Anna and Mavshibai, the conflict would never have occurred. The tendency for anger would not have arisen because the interaction would have been understood through a lens of familial love, which is precisely how Baba humorously resolved the situation by referring to Mavshibai as "the Mother."