Dear and esteemed Professor Gombrich,
Your observation is perfectly true in secular context. But would you not agree that a mystic visualizing is different from the secular visualizing of a living being and that Professor Hegarty's question places the former in context?

Best wishes and regards

Dipak Bhattacharya

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, richard gombrich <richardgombrich@mac.com> wrote:

I am baffled by Prof. Bhattacharya's remarks. I am completely able to visualise my wife in her absence. This does not mean that I have more than one wife.

I would really urge people to read the Sutta-nipāta text to which I gave the reference.

Richard Gombrich
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