In English
Once there was a man who had an only son whom he brought up with great care. One day when the son was playing with a ball, the ball rolled into a corner of the room. When the boy tried to retrieve the ball, he was bitten by a scorpion. The boy shouted, “Father, a scorpion has stung me.” However much the father tried, the pain of his son went on increasing. The father could not bear the sight of the suffering of his son and ran to a doctor. The doctor gave him an ointment and told him to rub it on the spot where the scorpion had bitten. When he asked his son to show him the spot where the scorpion had bitten him, the son showed him the corner of the room. As the father lacked intelligence, he rubbed the ointment at the spot shown by his son in the corner of the room instead of applying it on the part of the body of the son affected by the scorpion bite. All the efforts of man to get rid of suffering and attain happiness are like that only.