Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Can we say that the living entity is present within the atom by consciousness?
Prabhupāda: Hm? No. Consciousness will gradually develop according to the bodily situation.
Pañcadraviḍa: How does the jīva get out of the atom and take a gross body?
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Pañcadraviḍa: How will that jīva..."
Prabhupāda: (laughing) Body is combination of atoms. How he gets out of the atom. Body is nothing but combination of many atoms. Everything material is combination of many atoms. That's all.
Pañcadraviḍa: The jīvas inside the atom, are they like impersonalists who are in the Brahman?
Prabhupāda: That you consider. He has not developed his consciousness. Practically, it is like dead.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually, if there was a war, a large-scale war, I think that our farming projects...
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think that the various farm projects that we have would be very good because, as you said, the cities would be bombed, but the farms would not be disturbed.
Prabhupāda: Yes. The farm project... Even some hundreds of years, it was so nice. Even there was war, they would not attack the farmers. Rather, they would ask, "Where the other party has gone?" So they will say: "Oh, we have seen some soldiers going this way." That's all. They were not affected. That was the principle. Farmers were not attacked, just like at the present moment, the law is the civilians are not attacked. The military target is attacked. That is the law. But they do all nonsense. Even at the present moment civilians are not attacked. Just like Kurukṣetra Battle. It was taken far away from the civilian inhabitation.
Haṁsadūta: Some field.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is civilization. "Why these innocent civilians should be killed? Let us fight, military to military. That's all." That is honest fighting. We have to settle some things by fighting. So fighting may be, I mean to say, limited within the fighters, not with the civilians.