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===Early Days===
===Early Days===
Akshay Kumar Sen was born in 1854 in a village called Maynapur in the Bankura district of Bengal to Haladhar Sen and Bidhumukhi Devi. He belonged to a very poor family and did not have means to get a good education. He was married and had two sons and a daughter. Sen moved to Calcutta, where he was employed as a private tutor of the children of the Tagore family. In 1885, he had a chance encounter of [[Sri Ramakrishna]] when the later came down to visit one of his devotees, Mahimacharan in Calcutta. Akshaya accompanied another devotee, [[Devendranath Majumdar]], to Mahimacharan's house.{{fact|date=February 2020}}
Akshay Kumar Sen was born in 1854 in a village called Maynapur in the Bankura district of Bengal to Haladhar Sen and Bidhumukhi Devi. He belonged to a very poor family and did not have means to get a good education. He was married and had two sons and a daughter. Sen moved to Calcutta, where he was employed as a private tutor of the children of the Tagore family. In 1885, he had a chance encounter of [[Sri Ramakrishna]] when the later came down to visit one of his devotees, Mahimacharan in Calcutta. Akshaya accompanied another devotee, [[Devendranath Majumdar]], to Mahimacharan's house.<ref>https://estudantedavedanta.net/THE%20GOSPEL%20OF%20SRI%20RAMAKRISHNA.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=May 2022}}</ref>


===Subsequent meetings with Sri Ramakrishna===
===Subsequent meetings with Sri Ramakrishna===
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[[Category:20th-century Hindu religious leaders]]
[[Category:20th-century Hindu religious leaders]]
[[Category:Bengali Hindus]]
[[Category:Bengali Hindus]]
[[Category:Scholars from Kolkata]]