Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: His question was... It was sort of a dual question. At what time, or what...? Just like at the time of disintegration of this body, the living entity leaves this body and the body disintegrates, so does the atomic body also disintegrate when the living entity leaves it and moves to a higher body?
Prabhupāda: Atomic body? Atomic body means material body. Unless you are free from this material body, the atomic body will go on with you. That means unless you are mukta, the atomic body will go on. Mind, intelligence, ego—they are also atomic, finer atomic body.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But within each atom the living entity is present?
Prabhupāda: Yes. God is present; therefore living entity is present.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So the living entity is present within the atom just as I am present within this body. When I leave this body, my body breaks apart.
Prabhupāda: Yes, you leave this body, enter another body.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right.
Prabhupāda: By nature's law.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And when I leave this body, the body breaks apart.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: When I leave this body, the body dis...
Prabhupāda: The body is already atomic combination.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So it remains atomic combination. You leave the body.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. It remains...
Prabhupāda: You leave the house. That does not mean the house is finished.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right, I can understand that.
Haṁsadūta: He's asking that if the soul leaves the atomic particle, then does the particle break apart. Isn't it?
Prabhupāda: No, no. You have not left atomic particle.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, but you, you're... I think you were saying that within the atom there's also a living entity. So when that living entity leaves the atomic particle does the particle break apart? Or doesn't it? I mean what...?
Prabhupāda: Just try to understand. From the śāstra, you understand that aṇḍāntara-stham: "God lives within the atom."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: And when the God is there, living entity's also there. This... This much you try to understand. Because God and living entity, they remain together, as two friends. God is trying to save this fallen friend. That is the information from Upaniṣad. So when God is there, the living entity is also there.
Rūpānuga: So Paramātmā and jīvātmā are always together.
Prabhupāda: Yes.