Soka Gakkai also recognizes that adopting the Four Criticisms in the contemporary world as they were preached by Nichiren in his time, thereby ignoring the change of the times, would be criticized as self-righteous.
時代の変化を無視して今の世に『四箇格言』をそのままにしておくことは、かえってこちらが独善的と批判されかねない」などとしている。