Why did Sai Baba show such unusual eagerness and partiality towards one specific lady's food offering, when he often ignored others?

This incident reveals the depth of Sai Baba's divine vision and his connection with devotees across lifetimes. According to Chapter 27, when Madhavrao questioned this apparent partiality, Baba explained the reason for his eagerness. He recounted the devotee's previous births, stating she had been a grocer's cow, then born to a gardener, a Kshatriya, and a grocer's wife before her current life. Baba said, "after a long time, I have seen her; let me have two morsels of love in my stomach for happiness and satisfaction." This demonstrates that his interest was not in the food itself, but was an expression of a profound, long-standing bond of love with the soul of the devotee, a connection that transcended her current physical form.