Ramana Maharshi’s reported death experience

Record summary

At age sixteen, Venkataraman, later known as Ramana Maharshi, reportedly experienced an intense fear of death followed by a deliberate examination of bodily death and a conviction of an enduring self. Biographies describe this as the decisive event leading to his departure for Arunachala. It matters for comparisons involving ego dissolution, near-death-like phenomenology, sudden awakening, and autobiographical memory. The account was reconstructed through later interviews and devotional biographies, not recorded during the event. Medical, psychological, and religious interpretations therefore remain underdetermined.