Swami Muktananda said,
The root of all our sensations and all our thoughts is emerging from the Inner Awareness.  Can we see this in meditation?  Yes, if we remain still and look inwardly, we will see it.

It is this Awareness beneath the mind that knows itself.  Thoughts can be seen by the inner awareness like you see an object but the inner Awareness sees itself.  This Self -Awareness is at our core.

Mantra is neither prayer nor positive affirmation, but sound vibration pulsating close to the source.  Awareness has become the Universe.  Scientists call it Consciousness.  Mantric sounds are close to this source of all and expand our minds.  The syllables absorb us into the experience of Unity Awareness.

The unfoldment of our own inner Awareness describes the long-term process of meditation.  It includes the fear of physical and psychological death, a fear that arises in meditation.  Once past this, the meditator having confronted his or her own death and live without fear.

If it seems hard to imagine life without any personal suffering, yet from the fullness of the inner Awareness, we can see our own suffering and its evanescent nature.  This can be likened to how adults see the suffering of small child.  A child devastated perhaps because someone took his pencil inspires us with compassion while we hold a much larger perspective.  Similarly, our suffering appears this way to the higher Self within us.  It evokes tenderness and a desire to offer wisdom.  For this reason we must meditate.  To touch our own inner compassion and wisdom and be uplifted by it from with in.

Through meditation, we reach a place where the wind does not blow, where the heat of the sun does not reach, where death cannot penetrate.  This is the country of eternal bliss. If a yogi becomes established there, he becomes liberated.  Death cannot touch him.