soul." and "How heavenly is the company of a saint! Of all the things that have come to me in life, I treasure most the blessings that Paramahansaji has bestowed on me." Yogananda lovingly referred to Lynn as "Saint Lynn" because of his great devotion to God. Yogananda said, "Some people say, 'The Western man cannot meditate.' That is not true. Since Lynn first received Kriya Yoga, I have never seen him when he was not inwardly communing with God." On August 25, 1951, Yogananda "bestowed on St. Lynn the monastic title of Rajarsi Janakananda (after the spiritually illustrious King Janaka of ancient India) and turned over to him the responsibility of guiding the SRF-YSS work." "Rajarsi is a spiritual title meaning royal rishi; Janakananda means the bliss of Janaka. Janaka was a great king as well as a fully Self-realized master of ancient India.” The name Rajarsi combines the Sanskrit words raja, which means king, and rsi/rishi, which means saint; thus the title Saint King. Yogananda said: "For you, St. Lynn, I interpret this title as 'king of the saints." In the book Rajarsi Janakananda, A Great Western Yogi there is further explanation and an illustration of Yogananda’s handwritten note of the word Rajarshi (Raja–rishi). Mrinialini Mata said, in her talk The Blessings of Kriya Yoga in Everyday Life, "Guruji said that Rajarsi's role, even as Lahiri Mahasaya in India had demonstrated, was to be in the world but not of it: to show the effect that Kriya can have in those who carry worldly responsibilities as householders." Yogananda said that Janakananda was his most spiritually advanced disciple. Yogananda wrote in his Autobiography of a Yogi: "An American businessman of endless responsibilities (as head of vast oil interests and as president of the world's largest reciprocal fire-insurance exchange), Lynn nevertheless finds time daily for long and deep Kriya Yoga meditation. Leading thus a balanced life, he has attained in samadhi the grace of unshakable peace." After Yogananda’s death in March 1952, Janakananda became president of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. Mrinalini Mata , former President of SRF/YSS, was quoted before Sri Daya Mata's death: "In India there is the spiritual tradition called guru-parampara – that is, the custom wherein the guru bestows his mantle of spirituality and authority on his successor. In Self-Realization Fellowship this continuity is certainly there. We have seen its unmistakable evidence in