Yudhishthira said Like one who drinks ambrosia my thirst is never satiated with the nectar of your words of wisdom as they fall from your mouth. As a person endued with a knowledge of self is never satiated with meditation, even so I am never satiated with hearing you.

Do you, therefore, O grandfather, describe again morality. I am never satiated with drinking the ambrosia of your discourses upon morality.

Bhishma said “Regarding it is cited the old discourse between Gotama ard the illustrious Yama.

Gotama had a wide retrert on the Paripatra hills. Listen to me as to how many years he lived in that asylum. For sixty thousand years that sage practises ascetic austerities in that asylum.

One day, the Regent of the dead. Yama, O foremost of men, went to that great sage of purified soul while he was practising the severest austerities. Yama saw the great ascetic Gotama of rigid penances.

Understanding that it was Yama who had come, the twice-born quickly saluted him and sat with closed hands in an attentive attitude,

Beholding that foremost of Brahmanas, the royal Dharma duly saluted him and addressing him asked what he should do for him.

Gotama said How does a man liberate his self from the debt he owes to his parents? How, also, does he succeed in acquiring blissful regions which it is so difficult to acquire.

Yama said Practising truth, purity and penances, one should continuously adore his parents.

One should, also, celebrate Horse-sacrifices with profuse presents to the Brahmanas. By such acts one acquires many happy and wonderful regions.'