As the practiser looks exhaustively into discrimination and it becomes void, he will wipe out birth and death but will not yet attain Nirvana. If he clings to his knowledge of his all-embracing consciousness and so sets up his own interpretation that all grass and plants are sentient and do not differ from men and that after death men will become grass and plants; if he delights in such misconception, he will fall into error…

- Surangama Sutra