Several leaders of the worldwide organization meditate on February 7, 2008 during a special ceremony, at the Global Memorial made by the organization Transcendental Meditation (TM) which has some five million followers worldwide, to honour Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a one-time spiritual advisor to the Beatles, who died in his Dutch home in Vlodrop, The Netherlands. The Maharishi's message promised happiness to all. "Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. Under all circumstances be happy ... Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss," he wrote in 1967. According to TM followers mass meditation sessions can generate positive powers that can end negative processes like war and violence. "But when the group cannot be maintained financially, new tensions arise in the world," it added on the TM website. AFP PHOTO / ANP PHOTO / ROBIN UTRECHT netherlands out belgium out (Photo credit should read ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/Getty Images)
