About Statue of Equality:

Statue of Equality is a 216-foot-tall statue dedicated to 11th-century social reformer and saint, Ramanujacharya. The statue will be in a sitting position.

It is composed of ‘panchaloha’, a combination of five metals comprising gold, silver, copper, brass, and zinc. The statue will be the second-highest sitting statue in the world [the tallest is the Great Buddha in Thailand at 302 ft.]

About Ramanujacharya

• Born: Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu in 1017.
• He was also referred to as Ilaya Perumal, which means the radiant one.
• Ramanujacharya was a Vedic philosopher and social reformer.
• He revived Bhakti Movementand considered to be the inspiration for poets like Annamacharya, Ramdas, Thyagaraja, Kabir, and Meerabai. His preaching inspired other Bhakti schools of thought.
• He is also credited with establishing the correct procedures for rituals performed in temples throughout India, the most famous being Tirumala and Srirangam.
• He appealed for the protection of nature and its resources like air, water, and soil.
• He propagated the concept of “vasudhaiva kutumbakam”, which translates as “all the universe is one family”.
• Literary contribution: He wrote nine worksthat came to be known as the Navratnas including three major commentaries, the Vedartha-Sangraha, the Sribhasya and the Bhagavadgita-bhasya aimed at providing a philosophical foundation for devotional worship.

About Vishistadvaita

• Ramanujacharya is famous as the chief proponent of Vishishtadvaita subschool of Vedānta. Vishishtadvaita is a non-dualistic school of Vedanta philosophy. It is non-dualism of the qualified whole, in which Brahman alone is seen as the Supreme Reality, but is characterized by multiplicity.
• It can be described as qualified monism or qualified non-dualism or attributive monism. It is a school of Vedanta philosophy that believes in all diversity subsuming to an underlying unity.

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