Holding to this view, these lost souls of small intelligence rise up with cruel actions as enemies of the world, working for its destruction.

The consequence of the demonic worldview is not merely personal degradation but social and cosmic destruction. Those who hold the view that the world is without truth, foundation, or God — and act consistently from that view — become naṣṭātmā (lost souls, those who have lost themselves), alpabuddhi (of stunted intelligence, unable to perceive anything beyond the immediate and material), and ugrakarmāṇa (engaged in cruel and violent actions). They become ahita — adversarial to the world's wellbeing — and their energy goes toward kṣaya, destruction. This is the Gita's analysis of what drives history's great destroyers: not mere wickedness, but a coherent worldview from which wickedness flows logically once the premise of a godless, purposeless universe is accepted.