The battlegrounds Of The Devi Mahatmya represent human consciousness and the battles symbolize individual experiences.
The Divine Mother Is our own True Self, our Inherent Divinity And Wholeness. The Divine Mother’s Clashes With the demons Symbolize our outward and inward struggles. The Divine Mother In Her Many Divine Forms Destroys
all these demons.
The demons are symbolic of the aspects of our false self, such as ahamkara or ego of excessive tamas and rajas leading to excessive craving, greed, anger, pride, and incessant chitta vrttis, which maintain or influence the thoughts, emotions, and actions in our lives. The demons also represent all the evils in the external world that have been internalized. Whatever has been internalized in turn again manifests externally in one’s life.
The Divine Mother’s Destruction Of the demons Symbolizes how to combat and overcome internal influences of the ego and external influences from the outside world on our thoughts and actions, for a fulfilling life and for spiritual liberation.
