A paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement or symbol that may be nonetheless true.
It does exhibit imexplicable contradictory aspects of a statement contrary to received wisdom.
So what is Dakshinamurti?
And what could be the paradox in Dakshinamurti?
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Look to your right! Here you find something that somehow despite everything that it is not: SYMBOLIZES SOMETHING.
How could two oblongs, a crescent put atop a triangle constitute a face?
Yet that is the received impression and the symbology serves the function perfectly though it is contrary in exhibiting inexplicable juxtapositions!
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WHAT DOES THIS SYMBOLIZE? |

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TWO OBLONGS, ONE CRESCENT IN A TRIANGLE OR . . . |
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