Surely that means that the Yaksha has, for the first time, become conscious of itself? I wonder whether the Yaksha is a little drunk with the discovery that there is Other. I have seen a pariah dog stop in its tracks while crossing the road, nearly being hit by a car-the dog shakes his head in surprise exactly as though something, someone, has reached into its mind-then carries on, bemused.
I think the Yaksha, having found me by sheer chance, is dipping into other consciousnesses, discovering, delighting in the newfound knowledge that it is not alone. Lately other people have been posting things on the internet about odd sensations in their heads, like a mild possession, by something improbably huge. Oh, how useless our human-made, human-sized words are, how inadequate for a being that is so far beyond space and time! Later, while I was working on my calculations, I felt a sudden urge to tear up the sheets and throw them away, because what do we know, after all? If the Yaksha exists, how can anything we know be the final truth? I sensed, all of a sudden, an indescribable Himalayan vastness-and following its first surprise, a loneliness like a tsunami. I was washing dishes at the sink, making a big clatter to drown out the fact that I was upset about something, when I felt it. I would have dismissed it as a dream-creature but for the fact that I felt its presence in my mind again in broad daylight, while I was awake-like a tendril it was, an experimental hand reaching out, tentative, uncertain, as though I had been the dream. It came to me first in a dream, as I’ve said, registering an enormous surprise that I existed. I know it exists because it has spoken to me. Perhaps the tail has a mouth at the end that sips delicately at the radiation emitted as matter falls into the black hole, while the gravity of the hole itself keeps Yakshantariksh tethered to the galaxy. Its great bulk coils around the Milky Way, its torso curling in the dark spaces between the spiral arms, the tip of its tail resting not far from the event horizon of the central black hole. So it is with the Yakshantariksh, which is as vast, perhaps vaster than galaxies. Thus a tick living on the body of an elephant may never realize the elephant exists, unless, perhaps, the elephant speaks to it mind to mind.
It was discovered in a dream-supporting evidence came later. It is a being so real that it can only be sensed by that most intangible of organs: the mind! What a delightful paradox! And yet it is so. The Yakshantariksh is beyond one’s imagination, yet that is where its existence is made manifest.
Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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