I feel it is very important to finish your rounds as early as possible ( I aim for 7am) and never to carry any over to the next day.
This should be worked towards but if we slip up once or twice what to do?
We are only human and striving for perfection. We are definitely not perfect yet.
Our japa rounds are like the umbilical cord attaching us to Krsna - our life line in the material world. So we need to cultivate a mood of utter dependency and gratefulness to these rounds and lovingly chant our prescribed number of rounds every day.
It is our rounds which determine our devotional mood and the way we treat others. Anyone can work like a mule... but can we all sit down and attentively chant our rounds?
Not so easy in practice... and even more harder to chant them all in one go... but this is also best.
