In plain words
All the children of the village would come there. One would say he wanted a pencil, another that he wanted a pen. Because they were small children, they asked for such things. “Make a heap of sand and search in it for whatever you want,” I would tell them. Whatever they wanted, that they would get. One day we were coming back from the Citrāvatī to the old Mandiram. Susheelamma and her sister Kumaramma (she wrote the book ‘Anyathā Śaraṇaṃ Nāsti’) ran on ahead, wanting to reach the Mandiram before Swami came and make the arrangements for the ārati. Then I made a sign to Subbamma to hold them back. “You go ahead,” I told her. Then she stopped them: “Stay here; I will go,” she said. “This Subbamma is a widow, isn't she! How can she offer the ārati?” they thought. When Subbamma got there, there was a big serpent at the door. Subbamma looked after everything very carefully. Seeing the serpent: “Sai Nāgeśvara! Sai Nāgeśvara!” she called out loudly. In the meantime everyone ran over there. Swami says that God is in every living being, does He not! So, feeling that one must not strike this snake, must not kill it, she took courage and caught hold of the snake with her hand. At once it coiled itself around her arm. Meanwhile I went there. “Well, Subbamma! Playing with a snake, are you?” I teased. Then she: “Swami! You sent me ahead only to protect them, didn't You!” she said. In this way Subbamma witnessed many līlās. She was a very virtuous soul, a most fortunate woman. From the beginning she went on serving Me. Not only Me: she cooked and served meals for all the devotees who came for Me. All her relatives turned against her. “I need no one. Bābā alone is enough for me. Whatever Bābā tells me, that I will do,” she would say. Such firm faith did she have in Swami.
One day I: “Subbamma! Do you long to see your husband?” I asked. Now and then I would joke with her like this. By then her husband had died. “I have no such longing at all, Swami! What have I to do with a man who is gone? He did not have that good fortune, and he passed on.