Yes! I had the "near-death" experience once, when our newly constructed house was about to be opened in the year 1980!
We planned then for "Graha pravesam" (Home-entering ceremony) in few days, and the electrical works were in pending. The electrician was a drunkard and he was forgotten to switch off the main!!
He asked for my help to insert an "open-copper- wire" for earthing purpose in to a conduit. I was given an iron stool and was inserting the copper wire & he had been pulling it from the other end standing on a wooden chair by next room.
After a few seconds, suddenly some "huge power" caught hold of me, and I was all at once got blurred vision and became unconscious and was falling from the chair, holding/ sticking to my palm the live wire, some ten to fifteen feet away from the stool!
I thought, "some thing might have went wrong, and the fellow also would be in danger. So, no one would be aware about this sudden accident. And our life is going to end soon"!
Let it be aside, the experience I had that time, I wish to narrate, though it would be impossible to explain those feelings:
WHEN THE ELECTRIC POWER WAS ENTERING THROUGH MY RIGHT PALM, I WAS UNABLE TO SEE ANYTHING, PROBABLY I SHOULD HAVE CLOSED MY EYES UNCONTROLLABLY. AND COULD FEEL MY WHOLE BODY AS A ONE SINGLE LITTLE TOY MADE UP OF WHITE LIGHT, IN MY INNER VISION.
SLOWLY, IN FEW SECONDS I COULD FEEL THAT LIGHT CONTRACTS AND THE SIZE OF THE TOY( Just like human figure with about 15 cm in size) WAS DIMINISHING RAPIDLY TO ZERO SIZE!
AND THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY
NO PAIN AT ALL WHEN IT WAS ALL IN PROGRESS!!
BUT, ALL MY THINKING ABILITY WAS CUTE AND NORMAL! (Infact, my thoughts were so faster and clearer! But, only my physical function, not even a single iota was in my control!)
ALL WERE HAPPENED, I AM NOT EXACTLY SURE, MIGHT BE IN 20 TO 30 SECONDS!
My Goodness! It was happened in ground floor, so, I was thrown out on to the edge of my street!!
Some new comer, as a shop keeper, some how
saw the scene, understood, and some how found out the main box, switched off and saved my Life!
AS SOON AS HE SWITCHED OFF, I COULD OPEN MY EYES AND REALISED MY BODY WAS LYING ON THE STREET LEANING ON OUR BIKE! UNTIL THEN I WAS NOT AWARE HOW MY BODY CAME TO THAT PLACE!
IMMEDIATELY I REGAINED MY POSITION, STOOD UP IN NO TIME AND TOLD HIM WITHOUT ANY FRUSTURATION OR PULPITATION,
" IT IS A BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE!"
On hearing it, he scolded me a lot, with a large crowd gathered there," What! you guy! we all were panicked and confused, you say, it is beautiful experience, never again say like this, atleast to me please!"
But, after the shock my whole body was like not-mine, very week, for few weeks, and then I became normal!
IN MY OWN OPINION, I THINK DEATH IS LIKE A SLEEPING STATE WITH NO PAIN AT ALL!
FOR THE ONE WHO IS UNWILLING TO DEPART THIS LIFE ONLY, DEATH MAY BE A PAINFUL ONE!
A MAN WHO LIVE NATURAL, DIE NATURALLY WITH NEITHER THE FRICTION NOR THE FIGHT WITH THE DEATH EVER!
He arrives to this Mother Earth like a child;
and departs innocently again like a child!