Encounter With a Christian Brought This Hindu to Christ

From Ray Comfort’s book, World Religions in a Nutshell.

As a child raised in a Hindu household, Ambica enjoyed the festivals and traditions, imagining what she may be reincarnated as in her next life, and seeing visions of the many gods her family prayed to in her dreams. She didn’t understand what her coworker meant when she told her that she was praying for her, or why she loved this man named Jesus so much. But this encounter began something in Ambica’s life that changed everything.

I was born in beautiful Trinidad, Caribbean Islands. Hinduism was my religion. I was fascinated by the dances, the rituals involving the different pagan gods, and the movies. I considered myself very religious in spite of a habitual sin that I thought was just a way of life. I was named after one of the Hindu goddesses. My dad practiced Hinduism even though he professed that he was a Christian. My mother was the one who told me about Jesus and that I should always pray to Him, whereas my father taught us that all gods are one.

We celebrated Divali, the “Festival of Lights,” where Lakshmi, the goddess of good fortune, is supposed to visit the homes of humans. We also had pooja (prayer meetings) very often in our home. I loved the idea that we had a different god for every need and was so very caught up with what I could become after I died because reincarnation was real to me.

I became obsessed with Indian dancing and around the age of 9 performed in the Hindu Temples for all the religious activities to the pagan gods. My dream was to go to India, become a classical Indian dancer, and live the Hindu life.

“Jesus opened my eyes to see that Hinduism is a cult. It is a lie that we can be “born-again Christians” and still be a Hindu, Muslim, or any other religion.”

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After graduating from high school, my religious life continued. I fasted and lighted deyas (clay pot with oil) because I believed that the gods would answer my prayers. I also frequently visited a Hindu Pundit who read my future. I would dream of the pagan gods and believed that was a good thing; when I dreamt of the goddess Kali, I knew something bad was going to happen. I was told by the Pundit that the people I was living with were trying to do bad things to me. I had to purchase a fig tree, light deyas every night, do an offering, and then pour milk over the tree for two weeks. Every time I went back to him it cost $75. Nothing happened and he kept telling me that they cast spells on me, so he required that I do some other things but I got wise to him and never went back.

One of my coworkers, whose husband was a pastor, would tell me that they were praying for me. I thought, “What weird people… I am good. Why did they think I needed prayer?” A supervisor said to me one day, “Ambica, I just can’t believe that Jesus would die for me,” and what stayed with me were the tears in her eyes. She was really in love with Jesus; she really believed that He did this for her.

I started going to a Baptist church. On New Years Eve I heard, “Repent of your sins” and I realized that earlier I kept thinking I needed someone like Jesus to forgive my sins. Going to hell was not even on my mind because I always thought that heaven and hell were right where we were.  When I got home, I knew without a doubt that something happened. I came to know the real Jesus. I came to understand God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are not three individuals who are separated but the Godhead who is a triune God. Hinduism has many deities, and they also worship the trees, animals, spirits, and other things. Hinduism is a way of life, bound up with its own traditions and its own beliefs.

My Lord made me whole; He removed religion from my life and replaced it with a relationship with Him. Jesus opened my eyes to see that Hinduism is a cult. It is a lie that we can be “born-again Christians” and still be a Hindu, Muslim, or any other religion. There is only one God and His name is not Ram, Shiva, Lakshman, Ganesh, or Allah. He is God, Creator of all heaven and earth. Jesus Christ is God. Without His forgiveness, no one can enter the Kingdom of God.

— Ambica C.

This testimony can be found in the book World Religions in a Nutshell.