Question: They say that time disappears when one enters Nirvana. Is it so?

Answer: Only earthly time does.

Time is inherent not only in the material plane. It is everywhere in the universe but it is of different kind in other systems.

What do hours, minutes, and seconds on our clocks mean? This is a result of division of natural for the Earth unit of time — a day, that is the time required for the Earth to make one turn round its axis. People agreed upon dividing a day into 24 hours, an hour — into 60 minutes, a minute — into 60 seconds. On the Earth we also have a year — the time the Earth makes one revolution round the Sun. It was agreed upon dividing it into 12 months. And so on.

There are also other — little used — time units on the Earth: moon time and the time used by astrologers. But all of this is valid only for the Earth. On other planets time is different.

There is also time in the Abode of the Creator, but it is measured not by earthly days and years, but by Manvantaras — cycles of the Creation’s pulsation, which last from one “creation of the world” till the next one. The Bhagavad Gita contains a detail explanation of this. So, God exists in time and evolves.

Having entered the state of Nirvana, a person gets from the usual earthly time — into the Divine one. And it may seem to such a person — due to ignorance — that time does not exist there at all.