In English
Man searches for happiness where it does not exist. Love is within man, but he searches for it outside. You may be very intelligent and learned. But you cannot find something outside when it is within you. There was once an old woman who lost her needle when she was mending clothes in her hut. As there was no lamp in her hut and she had cataracts in her eyes, she could not find the needle. She went out and started searching for the needle under a streetlight. A student who was passing in the street asked the old woman, “Grandmother, what are you searching”? The woman replied that she was searching for a needle. The student said, “Tell me where you lost it; I will help you in searching for it”. She replied, “I lost it when I was doing stitching work with it in my hut”. The boy asked, “Why are you searching for the needle in the street which you have lost in your hut”? The old woman said, “There is no lamp in my hut. There is light in the street. Therefore, I am searching here.” See! Lost in the house and searching in the street! This is what man is doing today.