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Robert Delgado was a jolly friend, a promising football player and a staunch punk-rock fan. Nobody expected him to become a monk! However, at the age of 19, a sudden inspiration changed his life altogether - and two years later it took him into a Uruguayan forest to lead the life of a hermit. For three years he meditated and prayed in solitude, living in utter simplicity.

During this period, Robert become close to a man of knowledge, who had a good number of followers in the country. Robert felt that this man could teach him. The man, however, requested Robert to join the Ramakrishna Order in the Buenos Aires Ashram where he himself had been trained.

After eight years as a monk in that country, Robert finally felt he had learnt all he could f Robert Delgado was a jolly friend, a promising football player and a staunch punk-rock fan. Nobody expected him to become a monk! However, at the age of 19, a sudden inspiration changed his life altogether - and two years later it took him into a Uruguayan forest to lead the life of a hermit. For three years he meditated and prayed in solitude, living in utter simplicity.

During this period, Robert become close to a man of knowledge, who had a good number of followers in the country. Robert felt that this man could teach him. The man, however, requested Robert to join the Ramakrishna Order in the Buenos Aires Ashram where he himself had been trained.

After eight years as a monk in that country, Robert finally felt he had learnt all he could from the Ashram. It was then, that, following a dream, Robert traveled to London, and joined the London Vedanta Center, where he soon became the Vedanta magazine editor, learned Italian and translated Ramakrishna's main biography into Spanish.

Altogether he lived at the Vedanta Center, in UK, for 16 years. During that period he wrote Meditation on the Imitation of Christ: A Vedantic Interpretation, which is the only Vedantic commentary ever written on that Christian bestselling classic.

In 2004, Robert Delgado moved to India, where he spent two years studying different philosophies and the complex Indian culture. In 2007, he made his last trip to India and became Swami Chidakarananda.

In 2013, he moved to the Vedanta Society of Southern California.

Tapping from his deep and extensive experience of Eastern and Western philosophies and cultures, Robert creates the series of The Rishis, whose first volume is The Rishis and the Book of Secrets (Published by Eternal Press). A story that emphasizes the magical and mystical side of the extraordinary power and knowledge of the ancient rishis. It is a unique fictional story based on real archaeological discoveries, where he fills with rich and vivid imagination the lines that history could never tell.

He is at present staying in Argentina, where he recently published The One Infinite Being, and continues to work on The Rishis sequence.

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	Book of Secrets (The Rishis #1) 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los Rishis: El Nacimiento de Vizvatar (Libro 2) (Spanish Edition) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sins of the Father Shall Visit the Son Until the Seventh Generation: A Spiritual Exploration of Human Customs, Ceremonies and Traditional Beliefs, and the Truth of Our Spirituality 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	TRAHI PAR SON COMPAGNON: Liés par le sang, déchirés par le destin (THE ETERNAL ANTHOLOGY) by Robert Delgado (Goodreads Author), Shannon Strecker, Bennett Joshua 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BETRAYED BY HER MATE: Bound by Blood, Torn by Fate (THE ETERNAL ANTHOLOGY Book 1) by Robert Delgado (Goodreads Author), Shannon Strecker, LUCIO JONES 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TRADITA DAL SUO COMPAGNO: Legati dal sangue, lacerati dal destino (THE ETERNAL ANTHOLOGY) by Robert Delgado (Goodreads Author), Shannon Strecker, LUCIO JONES 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	VON IHREM PARTNER VERRATEN: Durch Blut gebunden, durch Schicksal zerrissen (THE ETERNAL ANTHOLOGY) by Robert Delgado (Goodreads Author), LUCIO JONES, Shannon Strecker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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1. Tell me about your book The Rishis: Book of Secrets, and where you got your inspiration for it?

The series of The Rishis is based on the fact that humanity was the possessor of great knowledge and power in the past, and that was lost. I created a fictional story that tells how that happened and how it still affects our world Read more of this blog post »

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“This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?

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“Ah, the bliss of Mahotsava!
What joy it brings to every heart!
What a rare and precious chance
To share all knowledge with the wise,
And bless and love all peoples of the Earth!”
—Book of Secrets I, 1”
― Robert Delgado, Book of Secrets

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“This is the right time
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Kira wrote: "Hey there Robert! Thanks for the friend request - I recognize you from twitter, so it's nice to run into you here ;)"

Thanks Kira, very nice to meet you here too :) cheers!

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