One of the sons of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh was a tanent of ours for some years.

Though a well educated and cultured man,he was a hard-core follower of Sai Baba.

He would sing hymns in praise of Sai Baba morning and evening, on his harmonium.

Being trained in Indian classical music and gifted with a melodious baritone voice, I, just a teenager at the time, would sit near him and be totally mesmerized by his singing.

Suddenly his voice started changing, and to our great shock, he was diagnosed with cancer of the nose and throat..
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Being a chain smoker,nicotine had done the damage.

By the way, smoking was very much in fashion in the royal family and the upper class families of the princely state of Patiala.

Instead of getting himself admitted to a good hospital, he insisted on meeting Sai Baba at his ashram, because he genuinely believed that this God on earth will cure him of his cancer with his miraculous powers.

To cut a long story short, this took a very long time and by the time he retuned to Patiala, cancer had spread through-out his body and he died a very painful death.
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A very sad example of what blind faith in these charlatan Babas can do to even a very well educated,almost a genius, person.

This incidence left a very deep,painful scar on my Psyche and intellect at a very young age.
One of the reasons for my great abhorrence and hatred for Babas of all hues and colours.