Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization (Raja Yoga): Man has a body and a soul. The soul enters the body sometime around the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy. The physical body is temporary and perishable. The soul is permanent and imperishable. It is uncreated and eternal, and has neither race nor gender. It is weightless, possessing no physical size. It is not an invisible duplicate of the body. The soul is indestructible because only that which is created can be destroyed. There is a fixed, eternally unchanging number of existent souls. In deep contemplation the soul is seen as an "infinitesimal point of non-physical light surrounded by an oval-shaped aura."�¹ The 'seat of the soul' is the third eye (approximately in the center of the forehead, where the pituitary and pineal glands are located).

The soul has three subtle organs: the mind, the intellect and the sub-conscious. The Conscious Mind is made up of thoughts, emotions and desires. The Intellect part of the soul uses judgment, discrimination and decision-making power. The Sub-Conscious is made up of memories, impressions, instincts and habits. These are called sanskaras. They take the form of "habits, talents, emotional temperaments, personality traits, beliefs, values or instincts."� Together these are the "basis of the soul's individuality."�² Suffering is the result of negative actions due to negative sanskaras. Suffering is a "punishment for"�wrongful acts"� committed in previous lives during a state of body-consciousness.³

There are three basic functions that the soul executes: "to give and maintain life, to express and experience its role, and to receive the rewards or fruits of past actions performed in previous existences."�⁴ The Darwinian concept of evolution is rejected.