Josei Toda, the second Soka Gakkai president, said regarding kuon ganjo:
"When we observe our existence, we find that in the time before gohyaku jintengo(i.e. in kuon ganjo) we lived with total freedom in a brilliant world of purity and joy. We were all beautiful in spirit and of life mind. We who once dwelled in such a sparkling world have now all emerged together in this saha world.Looking back I feel as though it was only yesterday that we lived in that pure, pleasant world. How could we possible forget the brilliant world where we then dwelled? How could we forget the friends with whom we then joyously passed our lives in absolute freedom? And how could we forget the vows we made together at the assembly where the Lotus Sutra was expounded?Since this saha world is a world inhabited originally by friends who are all joyful and pure and bright and on good terms with one another, is it not most pitiful and sad that, having been forced to drink the poisons of greed, anger and jealousy by proponents of the provisional Mahayana, Hinayana and non-Buddhist teachings, we have become like crazed children and have all forgotten the remote past?"
