The akhand path is a continuous reading of all 1,430 pages by a relay of readers, taking about forty-eight hours, ending with the bhog at an appointed time. It is commissioned for deaths and anniversaries, but also for house moves, exam results, visas and shop openings, and this is where the objection starts. The Rehat Maryada permits it and warns against treating it as a transaction; in practice a market exists, with professional pathis charging fees and, in some places, multiple readings run simultaneously in adjacent rooms. Reform-minded Sikhs call this exactly what Nanak attacked in Brahminical ritual — a reading nobody in the family understands, purchased for an outcome. Defenders note that the family is meant to sit through as much of it as they can and that the langar running the entire two days feeds a neighbourhood. Both descriptions are accurate, sometimes of the same event.