Extent of Voluntarism

Dear Mama Saheb
In response to your question I would just quote one dialogue I had with our general secretary bhati sb. We have a sister organisation called "centre for voluntarism" which organises lectures and dialogues on voluntarism and civil society. Speakers also include our PM, nobel laureate stiglitz, Rk pachauri etc. Once a professor of English from the university here criticised our work saying, all these NGOs have three star facilities and they do not do any work with the notion of sacrifice that the NGO's founders like mohan sinha mehta etc. did.

I remarked, if one wants to do this work continously, it cannot be done in frustration or by yourself becoming a hermit. That would only lead to oneself being cut-off from the reality.

At this bhati sb remarked. We should never put a condition on voluntarism. Some people have a will and the capacity to put in 100 % of their time and career into this sector, others can put in only 10 % of it. Both are welcome. As a professional you are welcome, as a part time volunteer also people are welcome. This is so coz everybody has a different capacity and background.
They might also differ in terms of economic and intellectual background and therefore it is only by self realisation that volunteerism can work and not through setting parameters for participation.

Hope am able to partially answer your question :)