Why is diversity essential for any tradition to continue?

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Thank you Question Can you explain why Diversity and Variety Are vibrant for any Tradition to continue Answer We all are individuals And we are individually so So You can look at How diversity leads to Vitality and creativity By looking at it Both Theoretically and Practically So theoretically Would mean In science there is the Principle of Entropy That Everything Degenerates Over time towards Sameness And the more it glides towards Sameness The less usable energy Remains in it Usable energy means The idea that Something Could be used For any constructive purposes So For us If nature Degenerates Matter and energy Can neither be created nor destroyed That’s the first law of thermodynamics The second is that Things degenerate towards Sameness and because of the Degeneration towards sameness There is nothing we can do with anything And this tendency of degenerating Towards sameness Is countered by Negentropy Say for example When we When we clean our houses When we wash our clothes When we When we using Our intelligence and energy Consciously intervene To create order Wherever order Has deteriorated That’s how we Counter negentropy The counter entropy with negentropy And That’s how things move on And Things are functional Now If we look practically we will see two examples Let’s consider The English language Versus the Latin language Latin language So now we will see that Latin Is very old And hoary But it did not Admit any other languages into it And because of that It soon degenerated Into a Museum piece It had no vitality People couldn’t Connect with it And the few people who Speak Latin now They speak it as it was spoken hundreds of years ago English Is not a very old language We consider Chaucer To be the first English writer And it’s about 600 years old But it has fast become the world’s Most It’s most international language Although of course Mandarin may be spoken more Simply because China has a huge population But still The global lingua franca Is English And English Has admitted Words From every language that Has Spoken English So we have karma from Indian tradition Kismet from the Hindi-Urdu tradition And we have like that Words From scores of languages In English And thus This Openness To adaptation To Has kept Kept English vital In every tradition Some order Of course has to be maintained And at the same time Language Is A tool that people need to use And it has to Connect with the way they live To the extent They do that The tool has required some learning The tool also requires some Accessibility When both these things are taken care of Then the tool Becomes much easier to learn And that’s what has happened to English That It has Become globally widespread Because of its Willingness to Incorporate From various other languages If you also consider simply Genetics Of families Which marry within themselves They often tend to get Genetic Defects getting passed on Entropic defects Tend to pass on more So So there can be marriages Within the community but not within the Family itself That leads to lot of problems So occasionally it may happen But overall as a pattern When other genes are introduced Into the genetic pool Through union Then the overall resilience Of the offspring increases So similarly For Any tradition to stay vital and creative To have life In both senses of the word Life means to stay alive And life also means to have energy Verve Vibrancy For it to It has to have Room for individuality And individuality means diversity Because each one of us is individual Each one of us Brings Our personality Our realization Our background And our Dreams Into the Into our spirituality And as if we consider There are different speakers Who speak in different ways Emphasizing Highlighting different aspects of spirituality And thus we attract Different devotees Towards Krishna According to their particular nature And Their presentation style And their analysis style Whatever So thus Different devotees from different backgrounds Can all be attracted towards Krishna By this Overall Vibrancy So thus We can say that Overall vibrancy Creates Diversity and vitality Diversity sustains Vitality and creativity That is what we observe Through nature Individuality Is a seed for diversity And creativity and Vitality So of course If English became so diverse That Any word could Mean anything No communication would be possible That’s why we do have standards in terms of Dictionaries and Other books But these are not absolute In the sense that There is room for Accommodation even within them Rather than Absolutizing The tradition There is no absolute Prescription There is no absolute Accommodation There is a balance Centered in the purpose The purpose is that Communication should be effective Similarly for a spiritual tradition The purpose is that The connection should be effective So the tradition should be able to connect With the people And the tradition should be able to connect us with Krishna At one end is The contemporary People, the other end is Ultimately Krishna So whatever is required To establish the connection That’s what Is done Both way connection