In plain words
That a woman should say such a thing to me! He even developed a kind of hatred. As she came back from her bath, he took the gourd from under his head and flung it at her feet, as if to say, "Here, look!" Then Ubhaya Bhāratī spoke. 'Alas, poor man, it is not mere attachment; there is Ahaṅkāra as well,' she said. 'So long as men have this attachment and Ahaṅkāra, they cannot understand the Ātma. They cannot attain the Ānanda of the Ātma,' she said. The man who had given up every attachment grasped this truth. He came running and, without discriminating whether she was a woman or a man, fell at her feet. "Forgive my faults," he said. In the nature of things, the root cause of every kind of bondage for men is attachment and Ahaṅkāra. When these two go, the Ahaṅkāra that says 'I' and the sense of mine that says 'mine', you stand as yourself. All this Ahaṅkāra and sense of mine gathers through food alone. Wicked or tainted food plunges man into Ajñāna in many ways. It crushes pure feelings. One forgets even where, when, what, with whom and how one should speak.
That is why Bhīṣma, in the Mahābhārata war, was a great renouncer, a great jñānī. No one can describe his vow as this or that. Śrī Rāmacandra kept his father's word for fourteen years only. But Bhīṣma followed his father's command all his life. It was because he had a firm resolve that he got the name Bhīṣma. For vows like these, no one surpassing Bhīṣma is to be found in any history of our Bhārata. That Bhīṣma fell to the ground on the ninth day of the Mahābhārata war. He lay on a bed of arrows. The Pāṇḍavas, with Draupadī, came to see Bhīṣmācārya, their grandsire. Lying on the bed of arrows, Bhīṣma was teaching the Śānti Parva to Dharmaja, Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. What is Dharma and what is Adharma, what is just and what is unjust, what is right order and what is misconduct, what we should enjoy, and what we should follow: these were the things he was telling the Pāṇḍavas. As he was teaching the Pāṇḍavas the Śānti Parva in this calm atmosphere, Draupadī, unable to listen, burst out laughing.