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1. Everything in the universe varies.

2. No human recognizes a thing devoid of invariants.

These are contradicting statements.

Which is true?

If (1) is true, then no human can recognize the things in the universe.

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The entire enterprise of science, philosophy, religion and other spiritual matters shall collapse, if there exists a process to vary an invariant!

No it is not contradictory...
Almost everything in Universe is invariant over its entire history over time essentially this is due to recurring nature or periodic nature of the fundamental forces... however devoid of proper understanding of time we are forced to perceive the variations...
We can also say that in short the everything varys but it is being percived as invariant because of our own limitation(or limitation of techonology)... for e.g wear and tear of clothes , skin or metals or atoms etc...
They are two different point of views which can be used in constructing the same reality...

What is universally true is that humans like to create word games ... and play them.

Both of your statements:
"Everything in the universe varies."
and
"No human recognizes a thing devoid of invariants"
are untrue. And the lack of truth in both statements is easily provable.

1. Protons do not vary. At least not within the current age of the universe.
2. I recognize protons.

And if you apply a few synapses you can come up with a near limitless list of other examples.

Far as I know 1=1 hasn't varied recently either.