Bhishma said Those who eat forbidden food without performing the sacrifices and vows ordained in the Vedas are known as wilful men. Those, on the other hand, who eat such food in the observance of Vedic sacrifices and vows and actuated by the desire of fruits in the shape of heaven and children, ascend to heaven but drop down on the termination of their merits.
भीष्म उवाच अवेदोक्तव्रतोपेता भुञ्जाना: कार्यकारिणः। वेदोक्तेषु च भुञ्जाना व्रतलुब्धा युधिष्ठिर॥