The Eternal ‘Skies of Ever Victorious Kansai’ that Mentor and Disciple Rely On 

Article translated from Seikyo Shimbun (Kansai Local Pages) on 24 November 2023 

 

Below the clear skies of ”Ever Victorious Kansai“, where Ikeda sensei solemnly declare the victory of the people with a lion’s roar at the Osaka City Central Public Hall at Nakanoshima. (Photo taken on 21 November 2023)

Kansai Soka Gakkai was built by Ikeda Sensei with his own hands. Kansai members had been struggling against and triumphing over all persecutions determinedly with Sensei. Sensei had ever mentioned, “I would like to state that it’s here in Kansai that my entire spirit continues.” Now, we would like to make a vow to eternalize the Ever-Victorious spirit of mentor and disciple under the clear skies of ‘Ever Victorious Kansai’.  

 

Kansai Soka Gakkai Women’s Leader, Mitsuyo Naori  
“Embracing Sensei in my heart,” I will strive on in my life. 

Mitsuyo Naori, Kansai Soka Gakkai Women’s Leader

I can’t forget the words that Ikeda Sensei said to us during my junior high school days: “I will entrust Soka Gakkai to all of you in due course!” Since then, I have chosen to “embark the same path that my mentor took” and it has become my ultimate happiness in life. No words can express my gratitude towards my mentor. 

Nobody can be comparable to Sensei who continued to believe in and warmly encourage us. He called out to us, “Kansai Women Division, stand up!” For the past few days, the skies above Kansai, a place that Sensei fondly loved, has been a vast, brilliant blue “skies of ever-victorious.” 

On November 4, 2007, the 258th Kansai Guidance Meeting was held under the clear blue “ever-victorious skies,” and the joyous spirit of the Kansai family soared into the skies. “Let’s strive with great delight!” “Because the Ever-victorious Kansai has triumphed!” At the Kansai general meeting, Sensei raised his hand and showed a “V sign”. I can’t help feeling that it is a “cry of victory of mentor and disciple” of Kansai, a place that Sensei built by his own hand, in order to fulfill his mentor’s desire to “rid the world of misery.” From now on, the Kansai Women Division will continue to move forward “single-mindedly with sensei” for eternity. 

The “impossible was achieved” in 1955, and the “origin of invincible spirit” in 1956, was depicted by Sensei throughout Volume 10 of the novel “The Human Revolution” and “The New Human Revolution.” The Kansai Women’s Division is making efforts to study in depth the novel “The Human Revolution” and “The New Human Revolution” and engaging in daily dialogue with Sensei. 

“We will never be defeated in our struggle!” — We are determined to pass on unsparingly the cry and spirit of the “Mother of Ever-victorious” to the youthful successors. We will raise the youthful bodhisattvas of the earth and create a new wave of hope-filled and compassionate dialogue with them, “causing the flower of the benefits of human revolution to blossom. 

We would like to open up the future of ever victorious, by embracing in our heart the eternal lion’s roar Sensei had shown and left behind in Kansai: “Those who strive tenaciously in faith will definitely emerge victorious!” 

“Sensei, please rest assured! We will respond to the expectation of Sensei, who called out to us “The Sun of Ever-victorious Kansai Women’s Division!”, by encompassing and illuminating everyone in the brilliant light of hope and making great strides forward as the world’s foremost solidarity of camaraderie. 

 

Source: https://www.seikyoonline.com/article/BD71B36B104B1DB29E0ED993D59A1CE7 

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