Nissim Ezekiel’s unique devotional sensibility

Abstract

During the entire course of its inception and establishment the religion in European countries offered
checks, bondages and dogmatism at various levels and, therefore, it was considered to be a regular
obstacle in the free and spontaneous utterances of human soul. Poetry on the other hand needs a poetic
personality breathing and growing as naturally as leaves to a tree. Nissim Ezekiel did not have a very
high culture of prayers and devotional exercises in his background. He was the follower of the truth,
therefore, he opposed the derogatory remarks of the father about Hinduism. He developed a grand
philosophic temperament and hereafter he made a continuous search for himself. He gets real strength
of life in the world of seclusion, meditation and prayer. He does not believe in for granted traditions of
the existence of God. All the gospels of Christianity were proving a nullity despite the faith of the people.
Did God remain silent over the killings of the thousands, nay lacs of the people simultaneously? Were
all of them the sinners or deserved such cruel treatment in any scheme of God? Nissim Ezekiel’s God
can be defined in easy terms. Prayer is, therefore, a very effective method of peeping within the soul
and to feel for a moment what we actually are.
Keywords:- Sensibility, Community, Prayer, Humanity, Philosophic temperament,
Transformation.