Sanskrit
एतव दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः । प्रभवन्त्युग्रकर्माणः क्षयाय जगतोऽहिताः ॥
etava dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno 'lpabuddhayaḥ prabhavanty ugrakarmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato 'hitāḥ
Translation
Holding this view, these ruined selves of small understanding, of fierce deeds, come forth as enemies for the destruction of the world.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Holding that worldview, Krishna says, these people become “naṣṭātmānaḥ” — of ruined or destroyed self — and turn to fierce action for the world’s destruction. One textual note: this edition’s Devanagari reads “एतव दृष्टिम्” where most printed editions of this verse have “एतां दृष्टिम्” (etāṃ dṛṣṭim, “holding this view”); no correction marker appears in the source, so it’s preserved verbatim here and transliterated as printed, but it reads as a transcription variant worth flagging. The philosophical move worth noticing is causal: the chapter treats a cosmology of no truth, no god, no accountability as directly productive of real-world harm, not just personal error.