"The World is God, Service of humanity is worship of God", the great Guru Mantra received by Dr. Adhvaryoo from his master H. H. Swami Shivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh, became emblem of Shivananda Mission. Saurashtra Centrel Hospital is Situated in a small village Virnagar, nearby Rajkot (Gujarat). Devotion, hard working and selfless effort of Dr. Adhvaryoo changed the hospital from a small dispensary to largest eye hospital of Gujarat.

Shri Virchand Panachand Shah founded Gram Sudharana Samiti, then Saurashtra Central Hospital in 1937. Shri Virchandbhai was told by Mahatma Gandhi to begin his work from small village so he shifted from Mumbai to Virnagar. His influence upon the village was so high that the old name of the village was changed and the Samadiyala village became Virnagar. Dr. Adhvaryoo came to Virnagar in 1956, talking premature retirement from Govt. job at Patan.

Netra Raksha Charitable Trust was formed in 1969 to accelerate the work of prevention and cure of blindness. The work was highly appreciated and supported by Swiss-aid,  Padmashree Dr.Rajendra T. Vyas from Royal Common Wealth Society for the blind and Mrs. Ruth Joshi from Switzerland. Soon, renowned eye surgeons from Switlerland started taking keen interest and joined the task. Dr. Gerhard Payer (Chur), Dr. Bowmann (Iuzern), Dr. Edward Jenny (Baden), Dr. Wildberger (Zurich), and Dr. Lukas Jenny (Baden), all these eye surgeons contributed a lot and they still continue to do so in up gradation of the work.

Shivananda Mission was established in 1981, with aim of expanding the work from health to education, spiritual and other social services. At present Shivananda Mission is managing Eye Hospital-250 beds, Maternity Hospital 14 beds, General Hospital 20 beds, and 16 beds for De-addiction Hospital. In addition to health services, for Education Sector Shivananda Mission is managing a school (standard 1 to 12), a Bal mandir (Kindergarten), a boys hostel, a girls hostel through Virnagar Kelawani Mandal. Social Services like building small check dams, recharging of wells for drinking water, construction of low cost sanitary toilets have been undertaken in the past. Shivananda Mission has been involved in publication and distribution of religious literature as Spiritual Activities.

Shivananda Mission Eye Hospital is the largest eye hospital of Gujarat state, it has 8 full time eye surgeons, 4 general doctors and 145 para medical staff which is performing more than 15,000 eye operations along with 1.5 lacs O.P.D. every year. The base hospital work, mobile eye work by screening eye camps and out reach eye camps are the three major sectors by which eye hospital is functioning. The Base Hospital has performed 1,87,145 eye operations till March 2008. The base hospital is fully equipped with all modern and sophisticated instruments, like Phaco-emulcifier machine (5), Operating microscope (12), Haag streit slit lamp bio- microscope (4), Autorefractometer (3), Non contact tonometer (Keiler) (1), Autokeratometer (Nidek) (1), Keratometer (4), Yag Laser (Zeiss) (1), Flash Autoclave (2),Statim 5000 (1), Laminar air flow system in O.T. to name a few.

Screening eye camps were started in 1988, Now mission conducts nearly 360 camps every year in seven districts of Gujarat state, where a team of doctors and paramedics visits selected rural centers, conducts O.P.D. and treatment is given, selected cases for operation are shifted to the base hospital for operation by hospital buses, after 3 days patients are transported back to their centers. Examination, medicines, operations with lens implants, accommodation and meals are totally free of cost to patients. One attendant is also provided free lodging and boarding along with a patient. Nearly 30 centers are selected every month for screening eye camp with the help of local health workers and organizers. About 1,03,239 eye operations have been performed till March 2008 from 1988 in such screening eye camps.

Dr. Adhvaryoo held first outreach eye camp at Barwala (Dhandhuka) in 1948, since then such eye camps were very popular among rural people. With the advent of newer modality of treatment and operations such out reach eye camps (where temporary operation theatre were built at such remote places) are now replaced by screening eye camps (where patients are shifted to better equipped base hospital for operations). Shivananda Mission has performed 2,75,744 eye operations till March 2008 in such out reach eye camps.

In total, 6,09,603 eye operations have been performed by base hospital, screening eye camps and outreach eye camps along with examination and treatment of 29,59,007 patients till March 2008. For majority of cases, Facilities such as Treatment, Operations including I.O.L., Lodging and Boarding are provided free of cost by the Trust.

Eye Bank was established at Virnagar in 1972 and corneal grafting operations were started. Now eye bank has been affiliated with Eye bank association of India, Inst.L.1346/2004 and is registered under human organ transplant act (Gujarat) also. In total, 1646 corneal transplants have been performed till March 2008.

Shivananda Eye Hospital, Rajkot run by Netra Raksha Charitable Trust was amalgamated with Shivananda Mission, Virnagar since 1^st October 2006.