This content recounts the near-death experience of Santosh Acharya, who, after a life-threatening medical emergency, claims to have visited heaven and received divine instructions from Jesus Christ, leading to a profound spiritual transformation.
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he goes by the name of sandy as well i
may call him that but his story is is
really amazing he was raised in a hindu
family in fact his father was a
high-ranking member of the the
priesthood if you will of
the hindu religion
and then he experienced a rupture
causing internal bleeding
that the physicians could not stop
and then
he was ushered before the gates of heaven
heaven
and then god relayed to him
a number of messages
for you
so santosh it is great to have you with
us today
hello everyone
my name is santosh acharji but people
call me sandy acharya that's okay with me
me
i was born and raised
in india in a hindu family where my
father and mother were very conservative hindus
hindus
so all i knew was hinduism
from my childhood until
until
when i i'm now in the u.s cleveland ohio
and one night i had a severe chest pain
and that actually
actually
took me to the icu of the hospital where
everyone thought i was having a heart
attack but ended up ended out not to be
a heart attack
but some
gallstones ruptured and when they
ruptured they attacked the nearby organ
called pancreas and they went from one
end to the other end as a result my
pancreas was bleeding
and to make a long story short my doctor
said there's nothing they can do for me
there's no such medication or procedure
to be saved all he said all he said to
me you can pray and hope and hope that
your heart rate will come down then they
can do something
so that's
how everything started
and that
in the hospital
things started to get complicated
further and further
until one day i
i
collapsed i had a code blue in that hospital
hospital
and i died from
in that hospital
physically died
and i was gone for three days and three nights
and then
in the meantime i had no recollection of
what happened to me
but i still remember every second of
what happened
outside this world
because all along i thought that
that
once i die that's it
your life is finished
but then when i died
i realized
my life did not finish there is another
life after that
and that's
what i want to share
with you now
now
santosh at the time this happened
you were not a believer in jesus as your
lord you in fact came from
a hindu family and not just a hindu family
family
but one that was very um
very high ranking within the hindu uh
religion so
tell us about your father actually was
raised you
as a hindu and that's that's the state
in which you entered into this
experience so tell us a little bit about
that background if you will well my
father was a very well renowned and well respected
respected
you know sanskrit scholar sanskrit is the
the
is the original language or all the
indian languages come from most of them
so he wasn't scholar in that and not
only that he was very
respected well respected for the
for the for the priestly
activities that he used to do he was very
very
honored person
so that's the background that i had and
my mother was a very strong conservative
hindu as well
but i took a different route i
i
went into the
into the engineering field
technical field
and that
you know took me from india to germany
for further training
and from germany then i immigrated to
canada where i lived for many years and
from canada i was transferred to brazil
and from brazil
back to canada
and then from canada to u.s where i got
transferred so i ended up here but
during my
you know working life i
traveled almost all over the world was a
very responsible
job and
god took care of me
and i got received i got several
promotions you know during that time and
every time there was a promotion there was
was
more responsibilities
so god took care of me
i had everything in my life that i was
looking for everything i got
but then
when i was in the hospital when the
doctor said they can do nothing
and i kept first time i was thinking
what good is it
what good is it
all the
you know the money and everything i'm
getting what good is it
now i'm in in hospital the doctor said
they cannot do anything
so all he can do all it can do is pray
and hope so what good is all these
things that's what i was thinking
at the hospital bed yeah sometimes
uh santosh we lose sight of the fact that
that
all of those guests that we have have
gone through a crisis moment before
entering into
their heaven encounter in some cases a
hell encounter and i believe you have
something to share
with us about that as well
um and so you have a special message for
us in terms of heaven so
just to recount your story now so you're
in the hospital
and you're bleeding internally the
doctors initially didn't know what they
what was going on they thought maybe you
had a heart attack your heart was racing
at over 200 beats per minute
and you were at this crisis point and
you had died
and then uh what happened when
when that
when life uh ceased for you and you went
into this other well realm
well realm
was at the time i was at the icu of this hospital
hospital
and at the moment my wife wasn't me
my son came to visit with me my
daughter-in-law was there they used to
live in
north of the detroit at the time and my
granddaughter was there
so i gave my final blessings to him
and then
i clutched on that bed
hmm so when i collapsed in the bed
all my senses were gone immediately i
could not see my
my wife and my family
i could not speak to them they all disappeared
disappeared
and then but the only thing was there
still there
was my hearing i could still hear for
several minutes what's going on in this
room so that tells me the hearing would
be the last thing
that we lose when you die in this in
this world
that's what i think
and then
through the hearing i could see a lot of
footsteps in the room
before that i could hear
one of the you know registered nurses
calling on the intercom code blue code
blue code blue room number substance
i did not know what the code blue meant
at the time
then i could hear a lot of footsteps in
the room
and they actually drove everybody out
including my family
and they took over
and by
hearing what they're saying
i think they were trying to revive me
but they could not
because the last thing very last thing
that i remember is one doctor telling
the other doctor we are rapidly losing
him he's not responding at all
and the other doctor said we just lost
him and that's the final thing i
remember from this world
until i came back
i came back after three days and three nights
nights
and what they did to me
i did not know i only heard from my
doctors later on what happened [Music]
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so what did what they did to me is
is
they could not
revive me
so they said they
induced coma in me i don't know what
that meant
and they took me to the
to the
surgery room
they put me on the ventilator first they
took me to the surgery room because one
of the reasons i had cold blue
my lungs got filled up with blood
there was
this little malfunction
malfunction
of no not intentionally
but the medical
people did something wrong i think
as a result
my lungs got filled up with blood when
it fully
you know immersed with blood i could not
take any more breath and that's how i
died ended
you were
you were literally um you know
suffocating to death at that point but
you were at an induced coma
and and during that
during that period of time now
now
is am i correct in understanding that
after you had a release
did you do you well let me ask this
question did you um did you see yourself
were you pulled by something uh
were you in a play what was the the
place you found yourself
immediately after you were released from
your body okay
okay
at that moment i
i
felt that everything is did
did dark
dark
i couldn't see anything for it
i don't know how long it was
everything but then i all of a sudden i realized
realized
my physical death did not finish me
i'm still alive only thing my body is
not there but everything my body could
do i could still do i could still think
i could still analyze
i could
i could do everything my body did my my
physical body was nothing
so that really
really
brought this question that
my life was not over with my physical
that there's another life after that
at that moment when i was thinking i saw
bright light appeared before me
and that light was so bright
and when it was coming near me i knew
that light has superior authority
i have to obey that light
nobody had to tell me
and then
when the light came near me i could see
my dead body on the hospital bed
that i just came out
the light took over me
it's like more or less like engulfed me
with his radiance
and the light was so bright i could not
see anything everything else disappeared
except the light that was in front of me
the light took me i call this light a
divine light because it was taking me
some place but whatever it is taking me
i knew it meant good for me
so during the transition i fell in love
with the divine light because its
purpose was to protect me
from any harm or any wrongdoing
together we travel for quite some time
and during this transition all
all
i could feel once in a while that we're
and then
at the end of the journey
the light stopped
when the light stopped i had to stop then
then
when i
look in front of me i
saw the light was actually shining on
that compound was so beautiful marvelous
marvelous
and i could see everything
even better
than what i can see normally in this
in this world because once we are out there
there
our vision is unlimited
what i mean by that i could see from one
end to the other end without any
obstruction in between i could see
everything what's going on on the other side
side
and i could also zoom in like a powerful
camera can do
and then
once the light stopped
on the beautiful compound
and as soon as i saw that compound i see there's
there's
many many mansions and it's beautiful
beautiful
it's all surrounded by high walls
and then
i counted there were 12 gates all around
and that
none of the gates were open
were open for me i desperately wanted to
go inside but i could not go inside
i was just outside of the
outside of the gate
i also saw many many angels there many
and those angels they were actually
their mission is to protect the
territory of this
beautiful compound
and when i saw the angels
then i realized i'm looking
at the
kingdom of heaven
but i could not get inside
because none of the gates were open for me
and i was very sad
and i was standing on a huge platform
that platform would be about a thousand
feet long will be about 250 feet wide
and i was on the extreme
left end
of this platform
my immediate think immediate reaction was
was
it seems like on a very high ground how
come this platform doesn't have any railing
railing
what if if i fall down where am i going
to fall so i looked on my left
and i looked down below
where i would fall would be enormous depth
depth
and that was deep
dungeon dark world there was no light there
there
and the place that i would fall
was a burning lake of fire that's where
i was going to fall
from that platform
and that made me very sad because i
desperately wanted to go in front
into that compound but i can't because all
all
gates are closed
only option i have is to
is to dive down on my left into the deep
dungeon dark world
and that's those that wall down there is
all abyss
you know what i mean by a beast once i
that will be the end of it
was there i want to go forward but i can't
i cannot go back where i came from
because i said no no
once we leave this world
we got a one-way ticket with no return
only option i have is to fall on my left
at that moment
i was very sad
and i sincerely wished i had an alternative
at that moment i was looking
on that platform i looked towards the
center of the platform like i mentioned
2 000 feet
long 200 right around the center of it i
see there is a
three steps like a
like an altar
and on the third step
and that on that throne it looks like
somebody was sitting there
lo and behold
that's where i
saw the lord almighty
lord jesus christ
at the time i did not know
that he was lord jesus christ
but i knew he was almighty nobody need
to introduce him to me because i knew
i knew he was the lord of everything he
and then
when i looked at his face only once
but i could not look at him second time because
because
shame and guilt took over me
because up until then i committed so
many scenes
and every scene that i committed was
flushed before my eyes
looking down below i could not look at his
his
face i was looking at his feet
and i kept repeating the same thing over
and over
lord please forgive me
please forgive me i
i
committed so many wrongdoings in my life
please forgive me
i was begging for his mercy i was
and i was shaking
because i knew
that would be the
last day of my life
i had no other choice but to dive into that
that
i kept repeating the same thing lord
please forgive me
i knew that at any moment i was going to die
when he spoke to me
he had a deep authoritative
authoritative voice
but when he spoke to me
he spoke with soul love and compassion
i was thinking of the worst
but when he spoke to me
i could understand to any of the
and when i spoke back
he even understood even before i said anything
when the lord spoke to me first he said
what are you doing here
i shrugged my shoulder meaning i don't know
know
he said i'm sending you back to the earth
but when you're back i want you
to love your family and love your children
when the lord spoke to me
i had little courage because i was
afraid i was thinking of the worst but
when he spoke to me i could hear the tenderness
tenderness
and the compassion
and the mercy
and then when i was looking at him
at his feet
right around on his left side
i saw there was a very
narrow door
like a narrow gate
and that was the only gate that was open
all the gates are closed
so that's the only gate that we can go
now through that narrow gate i could see
the entire kingdom of heaven too
but i could not dare because the lord
was a giant when he appeared to me he
was a giant and i am this
this
world i'm only five feet six inches tall
and the giant is in front of me how can
i go through the door i
i felt like running through the door
but i could not dare
i can only go to the
door only if he lets me in otherwise
this is impossible so
so
when the lord spoke to me sending me
back to the earth i thought that is
going to happen any moment
so i
got some courage
i asked the lord i said lord
please tell me when i go back
please tell me
which church i need to join which temple
which mosque who is synagogue or any
other place because that's all i knew okay
okay
which where do you want me to go
lord did not respond
and then i kept pleading i said lord
please tell me
where i should join
because when i go back i'm gonna be
committing the same things over and over
but next time when you see me i want to
go to this
finally after repeated pleadings he
responded he
said i was asking for church
and temple
and mosque in synagogue
or any other religious places
he said to me
those things are not important to me
i was shocked
all along
i thought you have to be
you know a religious person to enter
into the kingdom of heaven
but he said
no i want to see
i want an honest relationship
i want to see how true
how sincere how honest you are with me
not just once a week
every day
365 days a year
how honestly
i seriously did not understand what it
meant to
i said lord
i'm a simple human being please tell me
what i need to do so when you see me
and then he gave me some instructions
please give me some instruction
he gave me
he gave me one directive with one
directive and five instructions
first directive was
love your family and love your children that's
that's mandatory
mandatory
you must love your family and love your children
and the first instruction is
is
now
always tell the truth has two meanings
for me
first is don't lie
secondly is tell the truth like what's
happening here
like what you are witnessing in front
share the truth
so
and the second instruction was
the wages of sin is death
from these day on forward
i got that
third instruction he said
surrender yourself
completely i should underline the complete
complete
and then fourth instruction was
walk with me
i did not understand what that meant
because i came from a different background
walk with me the way i understand is
walk in the same direction where the
lord wants to go
if it's going forward and i'm going
backward or sideways
and the following instruction he gave me is
always
be kind to the poor
be generous to the poor
always be kind to the poor
most often we think they need financial
help only
no not necessarily
people can be poor in many ways they
could be
physically poor
mentally poor
educationally poor
and these days when i look at it i see
most people even people they go in the
church all the time they're spiritually poor
they don't have the relationship
that the lord is looking for so
so
that's message that he gave me he also
asked me later on
we talked for
several i don't know how long it is
because the time
i don't know the time
time
how long it spoke to me
it seems to be like we
we talked for each other for for a long
and he also asked me
to write two books
i said lord
i have never written a book in my life
he said don't worry
you will write to books so
so
through his help
help
i wrote the books that he
and then
later on
with the help of this
my friend here
and this church here they helped me to
put the two books together okay
so people don't have to buy the two books
books
and that book is now available in the
market is
my encounter with jesus at heaven's gate
and that's
that's the new name of the book
so that's basically
now if you have any questions i'll be
very happy to answer them
well we will have your book listed in
the body of this uh
youtube as well so you can click on it i um
um
and and you can read santosh's story
i've gone to focus uh santosh i'm just
mesmerized by your story just just absolutely
uplifting because god had told you
was at four four things i was counting
them four things i believe
like that five things sorry that he was
telling you that you needed to do
but i can't get beyond the fact
that you are standing before him and
and
jesus christ was not a part of any of
your pre-beliefs that is what you
never thought of so
how did
how did he reveal himself
as the lord jesus the
son of god how did
how did you know
that this was jesus
i did not know
even from the beginning i did not know that
that
i knew is god
god himself but
it was bothering me
even though when i went back to work i
got additional responsibilities they
sent me from my first assignment was in
china where i had to go very frequently
and once the china
project was finished then
my next project was in india so
i was busy with the work for a while but
it was really bothering me what actually
i witnessed because all the things that
i witnessed there
is no such thing in our hindu scriptures okay
okay
i was familiar with some of the hindu scriptures
scriptures
but i did not know
i was wondering why i did not
encounter the hindu gods and the
goddesses and all these things that we know
know
but who
i witnessed
who i encountered is not like them okay
and then
finally after my projects got finished
and the two assignment that he gave me
is to write two books when they are completed
completed
and when i was writing them i was
writing on the computer and as if
somebody was writing through me
because i had no clue what i was writing
i was not a writer
i was still bothering me what did i witness
and then
my daughter
she was invited to come to the church
this is great church in middleburg
heights ohio
i drove by the church many times
i never went inside
my daughter was invited here to
join a choir group because she she came
from the cleveland state university in
the square group so she she joined and
she invited
you know
my wife and me to attend it
easter service most likely most likely
easter service in 2010 or 11
that's the first time i came
and that day the senior pastor here
the very
the sermon that he preached that day as
if he was talking to me he's talking
about the narrow door
i had no clue what the narrow door was
so he explained what the narrator was in
that meeting
and then
i went back and started reading those
verses in the bible and then started to
you know make make sense what i
witnessed and then i started to come
here every week
and every week i took notes and i
started to get into the bible more and
more then i knew what i was looking at
that was none other than jesus christ
jesus jesus christ is the one
that we can meet in the human form of god
god
the real god he probably won't meet him
until he go inside the heaven
but that's we cannot see with our human body
body
because we do not have pure hearts
if we have pure hearts then only we can
see the real god otherwise we can't so
so
that such an important point um i mean
i'm just
just incredibly amazed at how how god
took you on this journey after
revealing himself to you and saving you
from the lake of fire
santosh and then you were invited
to this church
and you saw
the the god that you had witnessed
that was not
um the hindu gods with all of these and
we've seen pictures of them with
multiple arms and
kind of um you know these faces that are very
very
unlike of the human form and you saw
then finally and you saw the narrow gate
and of course that's within the bible
that those are entering into heaven
enter through the narrow gate
so you were correlating that is you were
taking all these things
that you were learning in the bible
and you were ascribing those that is you
were associating those
with the god of jesus christ that that's incredible
incredible
that's incredible
what we did
please no please go ahead all
all
i can say
that god is so merciful
so gracious
and he's desperately wants
wants
anyone from any religion any culture to
come to him
and ask him to forgive him
for her
and he's waiting for us
yes lord without his mercy without his
blessings we can do nothing
we can have nothing
nothing i know
because everything i had
none of them none of those things went
with me nothing
when i left this world nothing
nothing
wanted me
not my family
not my money
anything not my job nothing
nothing
and that's going to happen to each and
every one of us so
so
we still have time
still have time that we can come to the
lord ask for his forgiveness ask for his mercy
mercy yes
yes
and everyone will get it everyone
everyone
absolutely santosh i've got to ask you a question
question
going back to your experience where you
are on this
platform and you [Music]
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you told us the exact dimensions of the
platform which is in and of itself
amazing but you are seeing below the
length of fire and you see you're seeing
in in the distance this huge figure you
need to be
god this authoritative figure
and you were seeing these gates one of
which entered into the space in which
why do you think now
now
that god
saved you
from that destiny
that might have been
awaited had you not
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