Bhagavad Gita 16.9
एतां दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः । प्रभवन्त्युग्रकर्माणः क्षयाय जगतोऽहिताः ॥
etāṁ dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno 'lpa-buddhayaḥ prabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato 'hitāḥ
Translation
Holding this view, these lost souls of small intellect rise up as foes of the world for its destruction, doers of cruel deeds.
Reflection
Trace one current frustration back through the chain: which tilted view sits at its root?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Sixteen
View installs behavior. Hold the world as ungrounded and you become unbound to it. Nashtatma names the loss: a self that has lost itself, no longer in touch with its own center. Alpa-buddhi is the small mind that follows. From there, ugra-karman: cruel actions deployed for the destruction of the world they declared baseless. The chain is quick. View, then loss of self, then narrowed mind, then violent action. The asuri does not begin with violence. Violence is the last link. The first link is a tilted reading of reality. Sadhana works at the first link. Right view does not freeze a person into orthodoxy. It steadies them so that the next links do not form.