How Time Cannot Exist in the Spiritual World?

Question: How Time Cannot Exist in the Spiritual World? In this connection the great Vaisnava acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, 2nd Canto, Chapter 9, Text 11 as follows: "In the material world everything is created, and everything is annihilated, and the duration of life between the creation and annihilation is temporary. In the transcendental realm there is no creation and no destruction, and thus the duration of life is eternal unlimitedly. In other words, everything in the transcendental world is everlasting, full of knowledge and bliss without deterioration. Since there is no deterioration, there is no past, present and future in the estimation of time. It is clearly stated in this verse that the influence of time is conspicuous by its absence." I have no doubt about Srila Prabhupada and your writings, just a doubt erupted that the individual souls have fallen from the spiritual world to the material world, Prabhu, is that not a deterioration from the original position? So can we not say that our past was in spiritual realm, present in the material world, and in future we will reach spiritual sky? So somewhere doesn't the time factor manifest in the spiritual world also? Answer: There We Celebrate the Eternal Now The souls who fall from the spiritual world are not deteriorated in any way. Their original pure identity is still intact. It is something like a foolish child who runs away from home. His home and his personal room are still there waiting for him to return with no deterioration. He has not lost his identity as the darling son of his parents. Simply for some time he foolishly neglects it until he realizes what a fool he was to leave his happy home and then he returns home. That's all. Is this clear? When we return to the spiritual world we will realize that we are always here. It's just that we were foolishly dreaming that we were somewhere else. Therefore in the spiritual world we become completely transcendental to past, present, and future celebrating the eternal now. In other words, time is dream consciousness, and timelessness is awake consciousness. Just like when you are watching a video you are transcendental to the beginning, middle, and end of the video. You can fast forward to the end and watch it first. Then you can rewind to the beginning and watch that next. In the same way the inhabitants of the spiritual world can play with time if they so desire, but they are not under its influence.