Śyāmasundara: He says that these monads are individual, conscious, alive and active, and they range in quality from the lowest type, or matter, through the higher of types, such as soul, to the highest, which is God.
Prabhupāda: So whether within the atom there is soul or not?
Śyāmasundara: His theory is that even the atoms are made out of these monads.
Prabhupāda: What is a monad?
Śyāmasundara: It's difficult to understand, but a monad means a tiny particle of force which is...
Prabhupāda: And we say that is Kṛṣṇa