Sanskrit
चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः । कामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः ॥
cintām aparimeyāṃ ca pralayāntām upāśritāḥ kāmopabhogaparamā etāvad iti niścitāḥ
Translation
Giving themselves over to unmeasured thought whose end is death, regarding the gratification of desires as the highest, feeling sure that this is all,
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Their thinking, the text says, is boundless and ends only in pralaya — dissolution, death — with sense-gratification held as the highest good and “this is all there is” as settled conviction. It’s a compact statement of hedonic finality: no afterlife accounting, no higher purpose past the next satisfaction, which is precisely the cosmology verse 8 attributed to them. The psychological claim underneath is that this isn’t liberating but anxiety-producing — “unmeasured thought” describes compulsion, not contentment.