When the doctor said, apply this ointment at the place where the scorpion stung your son, the fond father asked the son, "Where did the scorpion sting?" The boy replied, "In that corner" and the father applied the ointment to that spot on the floor!

Source: Discourse of Sathya Sai Baba, Mahaaraani's Women's College, Mysore, 12 September 1963