Those jiva-souls who choose to the enter the material creation, must first go to Maha Visnu in order to get a suitable material bodily vessel from Him that is in sync with their desires to enjoy separately from Krsna or Visnu.

From Srimad Bhagavatam Krsna directly asks the jiva-soul now trapped in the material creation,

"Do you remember Me!"

Therefore, how can you remember what you never knew? This clearly means we all came from Goloka Vrindavana or Vaikuntha and from there entered the material creation.

The jiva-souls did NOT originate from the inactive Brahmajyoti.

The mysterious workings of Maha-Visnu's material creation works in a way that not even science fiction writers imagine, all material bodily vessels originate from the dreams of Maha Visnu.

The jiva-souls (marginal living entities) who choose to the enter the material creation, must go to Maha Visnu to get a suitable material body (from what He has ALREADY dreamed) that is in sync with their desires.

All material bodies are provided to the jiva-souls who reject Krsna, and all material facilities also are provided by Maha Visnu to those jiva-souls who can no longer stay in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana because of their rejection of Krsna or Visnu.

No jiva-souls (marginal living entities) originate from Maha-Visnu, they only move in/through His dreams (a material bodily pathway) according to their desires in their journey into the material creation.

There are unlimited material bodily vessels available to the jiva-souls that instantly place them in Maha-Visnu's material creation.

And the jiva-souls (marginal living entities), just like Krsna, were NEVER created and have no origin.

Krsna and the jiva-souls are like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays that cannot exist without each other, therefore Krsna and the jiva-souls have ALWAYS existed and were never created.

Although the REAL home of the jiva-souls is always in either the Vaikuntha Planets of Lord Visnu, or Krsna's central Planet of Goloka Vrindavana and NOT the temporary mundane material creation, or merged inactively (dormant) in the impersonal Brahmajyoti.

From Maha Visnu's point of view, the movement through material time's past, present and future all exist simultaneously, and is always there as a "permanent pathway" that unlimited jiva-souls are continuously moving through.

Srila Prabhupada – “This material creation is the spirit soul’s dream. Actually all existence in the material world is a dream of Maha-Visnu, as the Brahma-Samhita describes- 

“This material world is created by the dreaming of Maha-Visnu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation”. (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 29 Text 83)

Srila Prabhupada – “Everything happening within time, which consists of past, present and future, is merely a dream. This is the secret in understanding in all the Vedic literature.” (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4.29.2b)

Srila Prabhupada – “Our contact with matter is just like dream. Actually we are not fallen. Therefore, because we are not fallen, at any moment we can revive our Krsna consciousness, we break the dream.” (Tokyo Japan 1972 lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam)

Srila Prabhupada – “Factually all of material existence is only a dream. Thus there is no question of past, present or future. Persons who are addicted to karma-kanda-vicara, which means ‘working for future happiness through fruitive activities’, are also dreaming. Similarly, past happiness and present happiness are merely dreams” (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4.29.2b)

The material bodily roadway or pathway is where the jiva-soul moves through the past, to the present, and then to the future, from its start (birth) to its end (death)

These realities of Maha Visnu's dreaming material creations CAN be rewinded, they CAN be fast forwarded, BUT they can NEVER be changed.

This is because each material bodily vessel's pathway is already set in stone from its beginning to its end, this means each material bodily "pathway" that the visiting jiva-soul travels on, comes from the already "dreamed" dreams of Maha Visnu and can only be lived through and can never be changed (hence, set in stone).

The visiting jiva-souls who enter the material creation and obtain (lease) a material bodily "blue-print" from Maha Visnu's dreams, are already a set reality from its beginning to its end.

This is why once the jiva-soul has entered one of Maha-Visnu's dreams, nothing in that bodily pathway can be changed.

Also each material bodily pathway is repeatedly available and continuously re-occupied by other visiting jiva-souls who have also chosen to enter the temporary material creation.

Linear time is the movement from past to present and then to future.

In other words linear time is where time is seen sequentially, as a series of events that are leading along a pathway, from experiencing its beginning middle and end.

Seeing the entire journey on a long winding road all at once is seeing ABOVE linear time.

Maha-Visnu and rare yogis and devotees can see ABOVE linear time, just like one sees an entire roadway from above, its beginning, middle and end, all at once. 

All material bodily vessels are like costumes "leased out" constantly from the Costume shop owner Maha Visnu to visiting jiva-souls.

All of the jiva-soul's desires,  choices and expressions of "free will" are factored in before the jiva-soul is given a particular material bodily vessel to enter the material creation.

However, free will only partially exists in the material creation and only in the human species of life.

Free will does not exist in lower species of life, there is only the urges of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. 

Maha Visnu sees all, beginning, middle and end of all material bodily vessels because He is God and knows past, present and future.

All material bodily vessels are the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

There is always "free will" however, each material body's destiny that the visiting jiva-soul experiences, is already mapped out within the dreams of Maha Visnu explained above.

And "free will" is factored into the equation in such a way that the free will of each jiva-soul is not affected.

"Free will" always exists in the Spiritual Worlds that allows the jiva-souls to except or even reject Krsna by choosing to leave Krsna's association if they choose. 

Such freedom MUST be there if love is to truly exist in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.

So from the mistaken desires of the rebellious jiva-soul, that begins when they put their own selfish desires in the centre, instead of first pleasing Krsna, they are "forced" to choose a vessel from Maha-Visnu's "library of dreams" that transfers them to His temporary material creation and into a temporary material bodily vessel (Maha Visnu's dreams)

This is the beginning of the jiva-souls fall down to the material creation from Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavana.

But such fall downs are very rare, less than 10% of jiva-souls fall down from the Spiritual Planets.

Rejecting Krsna means the jiva-soul can no longer stay in the Spiritual World and is therefore instantaneously transferred out of Vaikuṇṭha or Goloka Vṛndāvana and relocated to the dream bodies of Maha Visnu (the pathway of material bodily vessels) material creation.

The jiva-soul already knows and agrees with the entire pathway or journey they have because their "desires" are in sync with the bodily pathway (material bodily vessel) from Maha Visnu's dreams they will enter.

Within Maha-Visnu's material creation exists every possible "dream" to fulfil every desire the visiting jiva-souls have, every scenario they can come up with is eternally existing in Maha Visnu's dreams.  

This means the jiva-soul's ability to express "free will" is already factored into the equation of the destiny of the material bodily vessel one has chosen to enter as explained above.

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is Chapter 11 Text 7-

"O Arjuna, whatever you wish to see, behold at once in this body of Mine! This universal form can show you whatever you now desire to see and whatever you may want to see in the future. Everything moving and nonmoving is here completely, in one place".

Purport

Srila Prabhupada  - "No one can see the entire universe while sitting in one place. Even the most advanced scientist cannot see what is going on in other parts of the universe. But a devotee like Arjuna can see everything that exists in any part of the universe. Kṛṣṇa gives him the power to see anything he wants to see, past, present and future. Thus by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna is able to see EVERYTHING"

(Bhagavad-gītā As It Is Chapter 11 Text 7)

The great sages and devotees in previous ages thousands of years ago were "tri-kāla-jñā".

Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand-

1 - What was in the past,

2 - What there shall be in the future,

3 - And what is at present.

Srila Prabhupada - ''So the point is that five thousand years ago the things which were written for this age, how they are coming to be true in our experience. That is the point: how they could see past, present, and future so nicely.

The sages were known as tri-kāla-jñā. Tri means three. There is almost similarity, tri and three. Tri is Sanskrit, and three is English or Latin, but there is similarity. Tri-kāla-jñā.

Tri means three, and kāla means time.

Time is experienced by three ways in the material creation- 

past, 

present,

future. 

Time limitation, past, present and future. Whenever you speak of time, it is past, present or future.

So the sages in those days were tri-kāla-jñā. Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand, they could know what was in the past, what there shall be in the future, and what is at present.

Just like in the Bhagavad gītā Kṛṣṇa says,

"My Dear Arjuna, you, Me, I, and all these kings and soldiers who have assembled in this battlefield, they were all individuals, and we are still individual. And in this past, in the future, we shall all remain individuals. That past, present, and future, he explained.

Another place Kṛṣṇa says, vedāhaṁ samatītāni (BG 7.26). Atītāni, atītāni means past. Vartamānāni ca, "and present." 

So that is yogic power, one CAN know past, present, and future''. (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 12 Chapter 2 Text 1 San Francisco, March 18, 1968)

There is still a lot more to learn about the movement of the marginal living entity (jiva-soul) through material space/time's past, present and future.

We have only scratched the surface in understanding Vedic texts in the 50 years since Srila Prabhupada made his valuable contribution to the Western World.

The movement of space/time in the temporary material creation is eternally divided into past, present and future as a roadway that has its beginning point (birth), middle (youth and middle age) and end of the roadway (old age and death), but ONLY while the individual jiva-souls are covered by these material bodily vessels governed by the movement of material time.

"Temporary" means the decaying progression of material nature always FORCED by linear time's continues movement of "past, present and future" which has the side effects of birth, youth, middle age, old age and death - or EVERYTHING decaying because of that division of space-time.

Whereas in the Spiritual Worlds there is only the "permanence" of the "eternal presence" of Krsna where everything is eternally fresh, youthful and never decomposes 

In the Spiritual Planets the jiva-souls ARE their body and no longer possess a material decaying bodily vessel or covering.

All material bodily vessels or bodily containers, are part and parcel of the fabric of material energies space/time that governs the temporary material creation and takes up 1/4 of the Spiritual Sky (matter)

The other 3/4s of the Spiritual Sky are the permanent eternally youthful Spiritual Worlds (anti-matter) eternally existing in the "eternal presence" beyond the decaying influence of past, present and future that only exists in the material creation.

In the material creation's bodily vessels, the jiva-souls are there as the passengers who are riding within the material energies fabric of material bodily vessels. 

Each material body is made of material energy that the jiva-souls possess.

The individual marginal living entities (jiva-souls) are the passengers in the material body made of material energy.

Material energy is "all one", the bodily forms eventually wear out and die and breaks down and merges back into the oneness of material energy.  

Our material bodily vessels are ultimately impersonal dead matter when the body is no longer held together by the presence an individual jiva-soul who possess the material body.

Only the presence of the jiva-soul gives the appearance of life in a material body.

The individual jiva-soul is anti-matter and NOT matter.

1 - "Matter" is lifeless dead energy existing in the material creation.

2 - "Anti-matter" is living individual living entities AS Spiritual bodily forms that pervades the Spiritual Worlds of the Vaikuntha Planets and Goloka-Vrindavana.

The jiva-souls ARE "life", whereas the material energy has no life, it is simply dead matter.

All material bodily vessels are given to the jiva-souls by Maha Visnu (from His dreams) according to their "desires".

And as the embodied jiva-soul continues their journey in the material creation life after life, the accumulation of the reactions from acting out those original desires, creates pious and impious reactions.

But ONLY in a human material body does the jiva-souls create Karma.

There is no Karma (being responsible for your actions) in the lower species of life where one acts only on the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. 

From the viewpoint of Maha Visnu and great sages, they see past, present and future in the material creation, all existing simultaneously.

Just like from above in a Helicopter one can see the beginning, middle and end of a long winding roadway.