Passage 27

In English

Your studies should bring about your refinement

There is oil in seeds, but you should know the process by which you can extract oil from them. How can you get out of sugarcane unless you crush it and extract the juice? There is sweet juice in the sugarcane. But if you ask, “oh sugarcane, give me ,” will it give? You have to crush it, extract its juice, and put it on fire. Only then can it assume the form of . If you think by crushing the sugarcane you are subjecting it to a great ordeal, then you cannot have from it. Its juice will dry up if you keep it aside for a few days. Thereby, its sweet juice will become useless.