The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 12.232.34

12.232.34

idaṃ maharṣervacanaṃ mahātmano yathāvaduktaṃ manasānudṛśya ca |
avekṣya ceyātparameṣṭhisātmyatāṃ prayānti yāṃ bhūtagatiṃ manīṣiṇaḥ || 34 ||

"Bhishma continued, 'By ascertaining from the mouths of preceptors and by themselves reflecting with their minds upon these words of the great and high-souled Rishi spoken so properly, persons possessed of wisdom attain to that equality (about which the scriptures say) with Brahman himself, till, indeed, the time when the universal dissolution comes that swallows up all existent beings.'"