Don't think mangala is just rising on time and getting a ritual done. Gurudev explains: wherever in shastra you meet the word mangala, shreya, or kalyan — auspicious — it is actually a synonym for rati, one's foundational attachment to Krishna. And arati literally means "rati is coming" — rati coming toward you. So what makes the day auspicious is not the form of the rite but that the first movement of your heart turned to Krishna. Your first round on the beads in the morning is that same mangala-arati: not a preparation for the day, but its beginning.