Ikeda Sensei entrusts the future only to the youth. There will be no future for our movement unless we can foster people who will staunchly uphold and carry on the Gakkai spirit of mentor and disciple and strive all-out to realise kosen-rufu.​

On a different level, a few years after my mentor Mr Toda tried to revive our movement for kosen-rufu after World War II, his businesses failed and he was thrust into financial dire straits. Who stood by him at that critical juncture? Cowardly disciples abandoned him, one after another. Many older Gakkai leaders had become calculating and self-serving. After he became the Gakkai’s second president (in 1951), Mr Toda clearly stated that he could only trust the youth and would pass the presidency on to one of them, even though there were many senior leaders in the organisation at the time. ​​

The same holds true today. I can only entrust the future to the youth. There will be no future for our movement unless we can foster people who will staunchly uphold and carry on the Gakkai spirit of mentor and disciple and strive all-out to realise kosen-rufu. My young friends, you are the ones I trust and have faith in. I reiterate, I am counting on you!