Shitala saatam-Religion vs science

# sitala saatam - Religion vs science; Inoculation vs vaccination; non-acceptance on intellectuals

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I am the student of English language and literature  here I write this blog as a task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir as a Sunday reading task. So l share my view point on shitala saatam.

# shitala saatam - Religion vs science 

As we know that our country is known as religious country. In every part of our country we find that religious play a major part in people's lives somehow as pure faith or a superstitious way. People also fear from religious ritual if they cannot follow. If there is something going wrong than they believed that their god is not happy on him than  began to worship the particular god. For e.g.one disease "shitala" , one who suffer from shitala deases they can't survive so people began to worship of this disease as goddess shitala every year as a shitala saatam.

Now days we know the whole things about shitala and also we can found  vaccination to save ourselves from the life threatening disease like small pox (shitala) . So sitalaa saatam is the day which we witness the conflict between religion and science.

• Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination

Smallpox inoculation is an ancient Indian tradition and was practiced in India before the West.

Smallpox was not known to Hippocrates, and probably not to Galen or his successors either. The earliest Western references which seem to describe it are those of early medieval chroniclers. The turning point comes with the great physical Abu Bakr Muhmad  whose Kitabon al-jadari Wa'l-hasba is still regarding rightly as a landmark in the history of medical science is clear these diseases and their differentiation in the Western world.

• As the concept of worshiping goddess shitalaa is failing and with their questions are raised against the practice of eating cold food  the new breed of nationalists have emerged to justify it as practice to overcome deficiency of vitamin B12.

As we know that behind the every religious ritual had  some some scientific benefits. Same as in shitala saatam we have to the practice of eating cold food, the scientific reason behind it is that our encestors are purely vegetarian so that's why they had not resources by which they can get vitamin B12 so in shitala saatam we eat cold food it has a lot of fungi by which we can get vitamin B12, only if while making the food use of saidhav sault. So shitala saatam is beneficial for human health.