Adyashakti is the original Shakti, therefore the highest form of the Mother. Only she manifests in a different way according to the plane from which one sees her. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/adyashakti#p1</ref>
==AdvaitaAdwaita==
AdvaitaThe Adwaita or Monistic Vedanta affirms the entire unity of these two [Matter and Spirit] & explains their apparent separation by Maya, ''viśiṣṭādvaita''Illusion or Ignorance, in other words by the theory that the Indivisible Eternal has deliberately imagined himself as divisible (I speak in metaphors, ''dvaita'' are merely various ways the only way of approaching such subtle inquiries) & hence created an illusion of looking at multiplicity where the only real fact is Unity. We may take the relations metaphor of the One a sea & its waves; if each wave were to imagine itself separate from all other waves & from the Manysea of which it is a part, and none that would be an illusion similar to that of them has the right to monopolise finite self when it imagines itself as different from other finite selves and from the name VedantaInfinite. Advaita The wave is true, because not really different from the Many are only manifestations of sea but is sea (not the One, ''viśiṣṭādvaita'' is true because ideas are eternal and having manifested, must have manifested before sea) and the next moment will manifest againbe indistinguishable from sea; in fact the word “wave” merely expresses a momentary perception,—the Many are eternal in an idea of change or modification which the Onenext moment we perceive not to exist, and not a real object; the only they are sometimes manifest and sometimes unmanifestreal object is the sea. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/0317/theisha-upanishad-all-that-is-stressworld-ofin-the-hidden-spirituniverse#p5p2</ref>
==Affinities==