Edasseri had said,
" I have not written even a single line in my life without remembering Gandhiji."
He adds somewhere else,
"I am a believer, but when I write about hunger and aversion the divine spirituality and respect for the philosophies part with me. The poet, who swear on Gandhiji often has his poems strewn with ideals that either contradict Gandhiji or even question divine belief."
This contradiction is quite evident from more than one poem of Edasseri, e.g. "Budhanum Nhanum Nariyum', 'Bimbisarante Edayan', 'Mullan Cheera' and especially in this poem 'Mappilla.'