World’s second-largest statue (Statue of Equality) will going to be unveiled in Hyderabad

• The 216-foot-tall statue of 11th-century social reformer and saint, Ramanujacharya will be in a sitting position.
• The world's second tallest statue in a sitting position is built of 'panchaloha,' which is a five-metal alloy consisting of gold, copper, silver, brass, and zinc.
• Sri Ramanujacharya's inner sanctorum deity is made of 120 kg of gold. This marks the saint's 120 years on earth.

About Sri Ramanujacharya:

• In Tamil Nadu, he was born in 1017 CE.
• In the Sri Vaishnavism ideology, he is the most revered Acharya.
• He was also known as Ilaya Perumal, which means ""the bright one.""
• The Bhakti movement was influenced by his conceptual underpinnings for devotionalism.
• He is well known as the founder of the Vishishtadvaita Vedanta.
• In Sanskrit, he composed famous books such as bhasya on the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita

About Vishishtadvaita

• It is a non-dualistic Vedanta philosophical school. It is non-dualism of the qualified whole, in which Brahman is the only thing that exists, but which is marked by plurality.
• Qualified monism, qualified nondualism, or attributive monism are all terms that might be used to define it.
• It is a Vedanta philosophical school that claims that all diversity is subsumed by an underlying oneness.