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Please note before starting your application

Before beginning your application, please note that part of the application requires you to upload a current resume/CV. This document must be in either JPG, PDF, or Microsoft Word format, and less than 500kb.

Additionally, you are required to submit a cover letter along with your application. In your letter, please tell us about your interests, aims, and expectations regarding what you hope to experience at Parmarth Niketan Ashram. Here are some possible topics which you may wish to address in your letter. These are suggestions only; please answer as you like.

• Why do you wish to volunteer at Parmarth Niketan Ashram?
• What appeals to you about our volunteer / seva program?
• Share your past experiences which are relevant to volunteering at Parmarth Niketan.
• What do you wish to experience here
• What do you think may be the challenges and opportunities?
• How do you feel about living in an ashram/spiritual community?
• What does service / being a volunteer mean to you?

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Volunteer Guidelines
Before applying, please read below our volunteer guidelines. Click to agree and move forward in your application.
- Living and Learning: Our Volunteer Program involves a living and learning experience here in the ashram. Due to the importance of our projects, we encourage volunteers to stay for a minimum of 3 months. We may accept those who wish to stay for a shorter period on a case-by-case basis.
  For full-time volunteers (at least 6 hours for at least 6 days of the week), the program offers full room and three meals a day.
- Work Hours: While we do encourage a healthy balance between working and enjoying ashram life, we do on occasion, work on deadlines, which may require late hours. In general, our volunteers work between 6-8 hours depending mainly on need. Albeit, we hope and strive our best to make the volunteer experience such that the volunteer forgets tracking hours and becomes joyfully immersed in the seva (volunteering experience).
- Quality: It is assumed that all volunteers will work to produce the highest quality work they are able to as a responsible member of any one of the multiple teams in our office. Also, all of the work presented to the office is the property of the office and it will be assumed that the entire work is original and any material taken from other sources is cited.
- Culture: Volunteers are first members of the ashram and then volunteers so they are expected to adhere to all of the ashram rules and regulations and remain conscious of the cultural context of the ashram in the dress code, behavior, and persona (see next page for details)
- Early Leave Notice: Volunteers who apply for a specific period and have to leave earlier than planned must provide two-week’s notice.
- Confidentiality: Any and all research, materials, reports, and contacts made during and after the duration of the volunteer shall remain the property of Parmarth Niketan and shall not be shared without express consent from management.
- Sadhana & Seva: Seva (volunteering) is selfless service and the fruit of true selflessness and loving benevolence springs naturally from the roots of Sadhana (spiritual practice). Engaging in any form of Sadhana, like meditation, yoga or satsang (spiritual discourses), is not mandatory, albeit it is the key to ensuring your seva here is focused and meaningful. The synergy of our sevak’s (volunteer’s) positive outlook and energy helps us excel in our mission to serve Mother Earth, Mother Nature and Mother Ganga.
- Application Process: Although, we are a family of dedicated volunteers and staff, our office is structured with various roles and responsibilities that have been designed to maintain the structure and progress of work while ensuring project goals are met. Typically, applicants are reviewed in a two-step process. First, we review the resume/CV and application and then, we follow up with an in person or Skype interview.
Check the box below to continue your application process.*
- I have read and agree to the above volunteer guidelines.

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Please note before starting your application

Volunteer Guidelines

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