People who do wrong intentionally don’t regret the wrongs that they have done; they only regret that their wrongs did not lead to the results that they wanted, but backfired on them. In the Mahabharata, Duryodhana made various schemes to try to hurt the Pandavas, even kill them. When those schemes did not succeed, did he regret? Yes, he did. But his regret was, not, “Oh, I did something terrible.” His regret was that “What I did, did not work out.” And that’s what makes him such a cold-blooded villain. Such people who are intentional wrongdoers cannot and should not be forgiven – That [forgiveness] will only make them worse, and they will hurt us and hurt everyone else more.

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16.03 Vigor; forgiveness; fortitude; cleanliness; and freedom from envy and from the passion for honor – these transcendental qualities, O son of Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature.