Ramanuja (c. 10371137) was the foremost proponent of the philosophy of Visistadvaita or qualified non-dualism. Visistadvaita advocated the concept of a Supreme Being with essential qualities or attributes. Visistadvaitins argued against the Advaitin conception of Brahman as an impersonal empty oneness. They saw Brahman as an eternal oneness, but also as the source of all creation, which was omnipresent and actively involved in existence. To them the sense of subject-object perception was illusory and a sign of ignorance. However, the individual's sense of self was not a complete illusion since it was derived from the universal beingness that is Brahman. Ramanuja saw Vishnu as a personification of Brahman.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): Who was the leader in pushing the philosophy of Visistadvaita?
Ramanuja