Forgiveness always comes to the good. It never comes to the bad. Listen now, O Partha, to the uses of forgiveness and of hardness.
क्षमा वै साधुमायाति न ह्यसाधूक्षमा सदा। क्षमायाश्चाक्षमायाश्च पार्थ विद्धि प्रयोजनम्॥