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## First Understanding: The Nature of Ordinary Plants
**Identifying Ordinary Plants:**
1. A plant is considered ordinary if its root, tuber, stem, bark, branch, twig, flower, fruit, seed, etc., when broken, breaks evenly, in a circular manner, without any unevenness or twisting.
2. A plant is considered to have infinite lives if its bark is thicker than the wood (central core) of its root, tuber, stem, and branches.
3. A plant is considered ordinary if the broken surface of its root, tuber, stem, bark, branch, leaf, flower, etc., is circular and even.
4. A plant is considered ordinary if its knots or joints, when broken, produce powder.
5. A plant is considered to have infinite bodies if it has the same kind of cracks as the earth.
6. A plant with or without milk, whose veins are not visible, or whose joints are completely invisible, is also considered to have infinite lives. Flowers should be understood according to the instructions of the scriptures. Some have a countable number of lives, some have an uncountable number of lives, and some have infinite lives.
**Characteristics of Every-bodied Plants:**
1. A plant is considered every-bodied if its root, tuber, stem, bark, branch, twig, leaf, flower, fruit, and seed, when broken, show a "heer" (a specific type of unevenness) - meaning the break is not even but uneven and jagged.
2. A plant is considered every-bodied if its broken surface is not circular but uneven.
3. A plant is considered every-bodied if its bark is thinner than the wood (central core) of its root, tuber, stem, and branches.
All plants that do not possess the characteristics of ordinary plants mentioned above should be considered every-bodied plants.
Every bud (kislay) is infinite-bodied when it emerges, whether it is every-bodied or ordinary. However, as the bud grows and develops into a leaf, it becomes every-bodied from ordinary.
These plant-bodied beings are of two types: sufficient and insufficient. Those that are insufficient do not have their colors and other characteristics clearly defined. Those that are sufficient have thousands of varieties based on their color, smell, taste, and touch.
There are a million species of these plant-bodied beings. Every plant-bodied being has 10 lakh (1 million) species, and ordinary plants have 14 lakh (1.4 million) species. Insufficient beings are born from the shelter of sufficient beings. Where there is one sufficient being, there may be a countable number, an uncountable number, or an infinite number of insufficient beings.
One should understand that there are a countable number, an uncountable number, and an infinite number of insufficient beings compared to every plant, and an infinite number of insufficient beings compared to ordinary plants.
1. "Uggemana Ananta" (Infinite in origin).