"I Return Without Harshness"

Atma-sneha is the practice of meeting oneself with warmth — including after failure or inconsistency. Kshama, forgiveness, applies inwardly as much as it does outwardly: forgiving ourselves is not the same as excusing the behavior, but it is the precondition for genuine return rather than spiraling away. The return without harshness is the practice, not the absence of the slip.