Advaita Ashrama houses book sales counter for selling books, photos, articles, lamination etc. to individual customers. Digital media is also used to market & promote the life-giving teachings of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda-Vedanta literature.

Advaita Ashrama undertakes welfare work for the benefit of the poor and marginalized sections of the society mostly within the vicinity of the Ashrama on a limited scale. Nearly 130 poor families are provide rations twice every month. 

Advaita Ashrama conducts various cultural activities to promote moral and spiritual values among the youth and the public.

Musical programs such as singing of bhajans, stotras, sruti-natak are held regularly preceding the spiritual discourses by visiting monks.

Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata has been maintaining a public library and a reading room with 13,997 books and 36 newspapers and periodicals.

The library subscribes to more than 30 national and international print journals and 5 newspapers for the benefit of the readers.

Swami Vivekananda had founded Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati to facilitate the practice and preaching of Advaita Vedanta. He envisioned the coming of serious spiritual aspirants to this holy place with the intention of seeking the Ultimate Truth.

The Ashrama conducts reliefs camps in several villages of the Kumaon area, mainly in the Lohaghat, Champawat, Barakot, and Pati blocks. A team of one or more monks, accompanied by volunteers and paid staff, go to these villages to freely distribute among needy mountain people sweaters, shirts, trousers, hoodies, and other items.

There is a small Guest House at Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, with limited facilities. The summer guest season is from 11 March – 20 June (dates may vary). The autumn guest season is from 11 Sept. – 20 Nov. (dates may vary) The period allowed for a devotee to stay here is 2 or 3 nights

Since 1903 Mayavati Charitable Hospital caters to thousands of people in this remote and backward region of the Himalayas, who come here daily across hills and dales, sometimes trudging a distance of 80 or 100 km for medical assistance. 

Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, houses a library with more than 14,000 books and 40 journals. Carefully curated and specialized in philosophy and religion, the library has a wide corpus of rare books.