In English
You get paddy by harvesting it. But you cannot consume it in its raw form. You can eat it only when it is cooked after its husk is removed. A bag of paddy weighing a quintal may cost 300 , while a quintal of rice, that is after processing in a mill, may cost more than 800 . You cannot wear cotton as it is. The cotton is to be converted into yarn and yarn woven into cloth. Then only can you make it into a shirt to wear it. This is the value of or refinement. It is refinement which gives value to a material. A human being comprising the five senses and the mind, along with its thought currents and agitations demonstrates merely human form. But he acquires immense value when he develops awareness and discrimination. You have a bamboo stick and a sugarcane stalk. The bamboo’s value is limited to its strength, whereas sugarcane is given a higher value due to its sweetness. Similarly, the human body becomes more valuable when sweetness of humanness is filled in it. When sugarcane is crushed, you get its sweet juice. When the juice is put on fire and made into sugar, its value increases substantially.