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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Antya-līlā, Ch. 3]
TRANSLATION
One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu met Haridāsa Tḥākura as usual, and in the course of discussion He inquired as follows.
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“হরিদাস, কলিকালে যবন অপার ।
গো-ব্রাহ্মণে হিংসা করে মহা দুরাচার ॥ ৫০ ॥
“haridāsa, kali-kāle yavana apāra go-brāhmaṇe hiṁsā kare mahā durācāra
SYNONYMS
haridāsa —My dear Haridāsa;  kali-kāle —in this age of Kali;  yavana —demons against the Vedic principles;  apāra —unlimited;  go-brāhmaṇe —cows and brahminical culture;  hiṁsā kare —do violence against;  mahā durācāra —extremely fallen.
TRANSLATION
“My dear Tḥākura Haridāsa, in this age of Kali most people are bereft of Vedic culture, and therefore they are called yavanas. They are concerned only with killing cows and brahminical culture. In this way they all engage in sinful acts.
PURPORT
From this statement by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu we can clearly understand that the word  yavana  does not refer only to a particular class of men. Anyone who is against the behavior of the Vedic principles is called a  yavana . Such a  yavana  may be in India or outside of India. As described here, the symptom of  yavanas  is that they are violent killers of cows and brahminical culture. We offer our prayers to the Lord by saying,  namo brahmaṇya-devāya go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya ca . The Lord is the maintainer of brahminical culture. His first concern is to see to the benefit of cows and  brāhmaṇas . As soon as human civilization turns against brahminical culture and allows unrestricted killing of cows, we should understand that men are no longer under the control of the Vedic culture but are all  yavanas  and  mlecchas . It is said that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will be prominent within the next ten thousand years, but after that people will all become  mlecchas  and  yavanas . Thus at the end of the  yuga , Kṛṣṇa will appear as the Kalki  avatāra  and kill them without consideration.
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ইহা-সবার কোন্ মতে হইবে নিস্তার ?
তাহার হেতু না দেখিয়ে,—এ দুঃখ অপার ॥ ৫১ ॥