They say: "The world is without truth, without a moral foundation, without God — born of mutual union, driven by desire alone. What other cause is there?"

Here Krishna gives us the philosophical underpinning of the demonic worldview — and it is worth recognising it because it is a worldview that appears in sophisticated forms in every age. Its three pillars are: asatya (the world is without ultimate truth — there is no Dharma written into reality), apratiṣṭha (no moral foundation — there is no objective basis for ethical claims), and anīśvara (no God — no ordering intelligence, no cosmic governance). The consequence is stated bluntly: the world arose from "mutual union" — from random biological processes — and the only cause of anything is kāma (desire). There is nothing beyond appetite. This is not merely atheism but a particular aggressive materialism that uses the absence of God to justify the supremacy of desire as the only honest principle of action.