Shitala Saatam- Religion VS Science

Shitla satam religious Vs science,Religious Vs Science

Shitala also called Sitala , is a folk deity,worshiped by many faiths in the Indian subcontinent, notably in North India, West Bengal, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. shitala satam is big festival for the Indian people. On that day people don't make food on that Day in house. They don't kook on that Day. Before the shitala satam '  રાંધણ છઠ્ઠ' on that day the women make food for two days. And second day people eat that food.

            Religious Vs Science

Shitala is disease in that disease the small pox on the body.  But in the ancient time shitala is big disease. In the shitala many people died. For this disease people take a prayer and eat cold food on Taylor day of shitla Satan.  It is covered in religious point. When the people see the small pox they said
" Mataji Nikdya che". On that day people go To the temple and do a worship of goddess "shitala". And they call,
"vaho tadho krva  gayata shitala ma no ".

After the  development of science the disease of shitla is normal thing. After searching the  vaccinations of shitala. The disease of shitala in rarely case we see a  disease shitala. No connection between the cold food and the disease of shitla but people still believe in that.

       Inoculation Vs Vaccination

Inoculation known as Tika. The inoculation, vaccination, and immunization are often used synonymously to refer to artificial induction of immunity against various infectious diseases. In English medicine, inoculation referred only to the practice of variolation until the very early 1800s. In India tika is big thing. People don't say they go for the vaccination they always say they go for the tika or the rasi. In Gujarat people say" rasi apava gayata".

At Calcutta in mid 18th centaury, the yearly death rate from smallpox was, on an average, 12,000 per million.In 1798, Edward Jenner discovered that the cowpox inoculation-vaccination protected a person against the smallpox.On April 23, 1805, after a visual demonstration of the effect of vaccination, 26 Brahmin inoculators declaring their full faith in the power of vaccination to prevent smallpox signed a statement.