Why did Sai Baba appear to show partiality towards the food offering from Mrs. Khaparde?

Sai Baba's apparent partiality towards Mrs. Khaparde's food was explained by a deep, multi-life connection he had with her soul. In Chapter 27, when Madhavrao questioned why Baba was so eager to eat her offering while ignoring others, Baba revealed their shared past. He stated that he had known her through many previous incarnations: first as a grocer's cow, then born to a gardener, then a Kshatriya, and the wife of a grocer, before her current birth in a Brahmin family. Baba expressed his happiness at seeing her after a long time and said he wanted to eat 'two morsels of love' from her for his own satisfaction, indicating the special bond was not worldly partiality but a recognition of love across lifetimes.