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Montreal, August 26, 1968:…So His children were His devotees. Vrindavana dasa Thakura has worshiped Him, saputraya sakala traya: “My dear Lord, I offer my obeisances unto You along with Your sons.’’
So Vrindavana dasa Thakura is offering obeisances Lord Caitanya, and specifically mentioning, “with Your sons.’’ Where are the sons? He did not beget any children. So His sons means His devotees, His followers. Kalatraya means wife.
So Caitanya Mahaprabhu had all these facilities. He was learned, very honored young man in His country; He had many followings. In one incidence we can understand how beloved leader He was.
The Kazi challenged His sankirtana movement and first times warned Him not to chant Hare Krishna, and when He did not care for it, then he ordered that, er, that mridanga should be broken. So the constables came and broke the mridangas. This information was given to Lord Caitanya, and He ordered civil disobedience. He was the first man in the history of India who started this civil disobedience movement.
It is not Gandhi who is the originator of civil disobedience; it was Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He said that “Defy the order of the Kazi.’’ Kazi means magistrate. So “This evening we shall go at the Kazi’s house in hundreds of thousands, with mridanga and kirtana.’’
So simply by His order many hundreds of thousands young men—not young men; young, old, all kind of men—gathered, and… The point is just how popular leader He was. Even in His young age, when He was only twenty years old, how popular He was.