Sri Raghavendra Swamiji founded the Anatha Sevashrama on the most auspicious Mahashivarathri Day in 1943. The Ashrama began from scratch, with the gift of a tiny piece of land, its resources were-and-are: the vision, the ideals of wholly selfless service, unfailing energy and enthusiasm and limitless compassion for fellow-beings-of the Two Swamijis. As a result, the Ashrama has burgeoned into a property of nearly 200 acres of cultivated lands as well as numerous moderate and vast buildings, equipments etc. The activities of the Ashrama for more than half a century in the service of humanity and national reconstruction, totally a- political and secular, lie in four major areas: public health, public education, social welfare and cultural activities.

• The Ashrama has developed a large hospital and annexe named Dhanvantari Medical Complex at a cost of over Rs.Fifty Million with in-patient wards, modern laboratory, operation theatre and necessary equipment. While the main thrust is on Ayurveda, alternative systems such as Allopathy, Homoeopathy and Nature Cure are also provided.
• The Ashrama runs a chain of schools from nursery through four high schools, pre-university, T.C.H, C.P.Ed, B.P.Ed Colleges. The college offers many vocational courses such as electrical engineering, dairy science, automobile engineering, basic health workers’ training etc. The institutions in Malladihalli are residential with adequate hostel facilities. Hundreds of students are given free food and clothing. The Ashrama also runs a school for Typewriting.
• The Ashrama has a school of yoga in its huge International Yoga Centre offering a Certificate Course for young men and women. This is the only School of its kind in the whole Karnataka. More than a hundred thousand aspirants of yoga, have been trained in the annual “Patanjala Moola Yoga Shikshana Shibira” held in every October in which both the theory and practice of yoga and advanced ‘Shat-Karma’ techniques are taught.
• The Ashrama has been conducting for over three decades, mass-marriages every April or May, bearing the entire expenses, thus launching happy young couples into a career of wedlock.
• The Ashrama is running a “Vriddhashrama”, a home for the aged, sick and infirm.
• The Matrumandira brings discarded women back to the fold of society and gives them vocational training and renders them self-reliant and self-respecting members of the society.
• The Ashrama has built the “Vyasa-peetha” (Seat of Wisdom & Culture) in which all the inmates including its some six-hundred children, elders and the people of Malladihalli and surrounding villages may be exposed repeatedly to traditional cultural values. The daily activity of the students commences with Suryanamaskara at 6 a.m. and a mass-prayer at evenings, music, dance, drama, folk arts and discourses are arranged on the Vyasapeetha throughout the year stung across the major festival celebrations such as Mahashivarathri, Yugadi, Ganesh Chathurthi etc.
• The Ashrama has established an effective instrument of communication in the form of publication-series named “Balabelaku Sahithya Maale” (Life-light series) which has published over a hundred works of popular, general and specialised interest on yoga, medicine, nature cure, body- massage, plays, novels, spiritual discourses, essays etc, mostly by Sri Raghavendra Swamiji and a few by other creative and noted writers. These are well-produced and low-priced. Notable among them are the Nandanavana, a large felicitation volume dedicated to Sri Raghvendra Swamiji, “Swayam- Vaidya” (Self-Doctor in Ayurveda), “Vanaushadhi Guna dharma” (Materia-medica) and an autobiography of the Swamiji, “Joligeya Pawaada”. The Sarvodaya-Printing-Press, run by the Ashrama is well equipped and has skilled, technical staff to meet the ever- increasing demands of Ashrama publication work.
• Thanks to the generous gesture of the Mysore Urban Development Authority, the Ashrama has now a site measuring 360′ x 200′ in Kuvempunagar, Mysore. A branch is now opened here with a building of its own.
• Several activities of the Ashrama are extended to this branch also. The Medical Centre and Yoga training camps are maintained on similar lines as at the mother institution Camps for Domestic Medicines are held regularly.
• The ashrama has always dependent on public support and philanthropy for its main moral and financial source and resource. This is even more so now, when it is necessary to make the 21st century a meaningful and prosperous era for mankind.
• The Swamiji’s dreams for the future of our society- which means you and us are endless. His begging bowl is now even larger and has no bottom. If you give with one hand, the Ashrama gives back to needy with 1000 hands. Therefore we earnestly request you to help our society and culture.