@lizzie see I see the jivas as being a temporary existence, a created and dissolved thing, but their essence the Paramatman is equivalent to God and timeless. in this sense separation from God is an illusion and it is the illusion itself which is bound in time, created and destroyed. otherwise you get souls with a beginning but no end like the abrahamics, which is quite silly to me. or you get what many hindus believe which is co-eternal but separate souls with no beginning or end that come from God but dont fully return to God, they compare this to butter or yoghurt coming from milk but not returning to milk or something like that.