Now, a funny thing that happens with “a.”  There’s a what you might call a device, called visarga, which is much more than device, because it is the thing that actually makes speech manifest and it’s the thing that makes the world manifest. Visarga, you can think of it as reflection in the same way that when Shiva looked into the mirror to see himself he saw a reflection, the reflection of Shaki.  And it also means an echo. So the visarga of “a,” the echo of “a” is the anahat, the untouched, the unstruck syllable of “ha.”