37 years of Experience 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 two volumes are The Rishis and the Book of Secrets and The Rishis: Birth of Vizvatar (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. In 2014 Robert abandoned his monastic life and he is at present staying in Argentina, where he recently published The One Infinite Being, and continues to work on The Rishis sequence.