Sanskrit
असत्यमप्रतिष्ठं ते जगदाहुरनीश्वरम् । अपरस्परसंभूतं किमन्यत्कामहैतुकम् ॥
asatyam apratiṣṭhaṃ te jagad āhur anīśvaram aparasparasaṃbhūtaṃ kim anyat kāmahaitukam
Translation
"The universe is without truth, without basis," they say, "without a God; brought about by mutual union, and caused by lust and nothing else."
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Here the text puts words in the mouths of the people it is critiquing, and what it produces is a fairly recognizable materialist position: the universe is without truth or foundation, without a God or ruling principle, arising from nothing but chance union and driven by kāma (desire) alone. It reads like polemic against a real rival school — something like the Cārvāka/Lokāyata materialist tradition that Indian philosophy debated for centuries — and, like most premodern doxography of opponents, it’s worth treating as a hostile caricature rather than a neutral summary of what such thinkers actually held. What’s notable is that the text doesn’t bother refuting this cosmology philosophically; it simply asserts that people who hold it turn out badly, which is itself a telling move.