176 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 5
SYNONYMS

purna—complete; sat-aisvarya—possessing six opulences; caitanya—Lord Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu; svayam—Himself; bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of
Godhead; tanre—Him; kaili—you have made; ksudra jiva—an ordinary living en-
tity; sphulinga-samana—exactly equal to the spark.

TRANSLATION

“You have calculated Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, full in six opulences, to be on the level of an ordinary liv-
ing being. Instead of knowing Him as the supreme fire, you have accepted
Him as a spark.”

PURPORT

In the Upanisads it is said, yathagner visphulinga 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 sruti-vakya, or message from
the Vedas, we should understand the distinction between the Supreme Lord
Krsna 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 Krsna
says in Bhagavad-gitd (15.7):

mamaivamso jiva-loke
jiva-bhitah sanatanah
manah sasthanindriyani
prakrti-sthani karsati
“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 in-
clude the mind.”

There is a distinction between the body and soul of the materially existing liv-
ing being, but because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Jagannatha 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 be-
tween them. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam:

etad isanam isasya
prakrti-stho ‘pi tad-gunaih

na yujyate sadatma-sthair
yatha buddhis tad-dasraya
