# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rajarsi-janakananda
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:21:54.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rajarsi-janakananda"
name: "Rajarsi Janakananda"
slug: "rajarsi-janakananda"
description: "Rajarsi Janakananda, born James Jesse Lynn, was a wealthy American businessman who became the closest disciple of the yogi Paramahansa Yogananda after they met in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1932. Janakananda was the main financial contributor to Yogananda's religious organization, Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), and he helped ensure its long-term success. Within SRF, he is considered a saint who attained union with God through meditation. SRF presented him as an object lesson in the benefits of its teachings, and it represented his relationship with Yogananda as an example of the cultural exchange they advocated between \"spiritual\" India and \"industrial\" America. Janakananda succeeded Yogananda as its president from 1952 until 1955, when Janakananda died at the age of 62. He left an endowment of approximately three million dollars to SRF, along with donations to the University of Missouri–Kansas City and Swope Park."
tagline: "American Yogi (1892-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rajarsi_lotus-A.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1892-05-05"
deathDate: "1955-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.694890666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump