Through your own penances, O Bhishma, you are competent to see me. Those regions from which no one returns, O King, are ready for you.
अर्हस्त्वं भीष्म मां द्रष्टुं तपसा स्वेन पार्थिव। तव ह्युपस्थिता लोका येभ्यो नावर्तते पुनः॥