They espouse peace but are engaged in a battle of their own - to convince world leaders that meditation and yogic flying are the remedies for global conflict.
Some 60 practitioners of the ancient Indian philosophy gathered in Dublin over the weekend to attempt to ease the tensions fuelling the build-up to war in the Middle East.
Using two conference rooms in a city centre hotel, they joined in transcendental meditation (TM) and a form of levitation called yogic flying in the hope that their work would boost efforts of similar groups worldwide in achieving an international sense of calm.
Ms Maura McCann, one of the organisers of the weekend, anticipated the cynic's questions before they arose.
"We are not under any illusion that our little group here can save the world in a weekend," she said.
"But collectively, if enough people across the world get together, it is the most powerful force for peace there is."
And she had the science to prove it, quoting from a study published by the Journal of Conflict Resolution which suggests a concerted effort at TM and yogic flying reduced deaths and injuries during the latter part of the bloody war in Lebanon.
She acknowledges cynics would credit the same results with peace accords or some other kind of political or military manoeuvring but she and fellow practitioner, Mr John Burns, challenged the sceptical to support a new experiment.
A global effort is under way to organise a group of 40,000 people in India to practise TM and yogic flying full time.
Their aim is to to try to defuse the current tensions and Irish followers are fund-raising to lend their support.
"There are full-time armies paid for by governments and taxpayers in preparation for war. This would be an army for peace," said Mr Burns.
Mr Burns quoted Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Himalayan guru who leads the movement, describing it as an effort to achieve harmony on a collective level so that no little spark can ignite a conflagration.
"It's like wetting the grass so that if a spark falls, it will burn itself out before causing any harm."