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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Antya-līlā, Ch. 5]
SYNONYMS
pūrṇa —complete;  ṣaṭ-aiśvarya —possessing six opulences;  caitanya —Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  svayam —Himself;  bhagavān —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  tārre —Him;  kaili —you have made;  kṣudra jīva —an ordinary living entity;  sphuliṅga-samāna —exactly equal to the spark.
TRANSLATION
“You have calculated Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, full in six opulences, to be on the level of an ordinary living being. Instead of knowing Him as the supreme fire, you have accepted Him as a spark.”
PURPORT
In the  Upaniṣads  it is said,  yathāgner visphuliṅgā vyuccaranti : the living entities are like sparks of fire, and His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead is considered the original great fire. When we hear this  śruti-vākya , or message from the  Vedas , we should understand the distinction between the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa and the living entities. A person under the control of the external energy, however, cannot understand that distinction. Such a person cannot understand that the Supreme Person is the original great fire, whereas the living entities are simply small fragmental parts of that Supreme Personality of Godhead. As Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (15.7):
mamaivāriśo jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati
“The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.”
There is a distinction between the body and soul of the materially existing living being, but because Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha do not possess material bodies, there is no distinction between Their bodies and souls. On the spiritual platform, body and soul are identical; there is no distinction between them. As stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam :
etad īśanam īśasya prakṛti-stho ‘pi tad-guṇaiḥ na yujyate sadātma-sthair yathā buddhis tad-āśrayā