“The Devi’s Battle Sequence with the asura brothers is the inner conflict between The Boundless Self and the limited sense of self or the subjective and limited notion of identity.”
As The Divine Mother (Self) penetrates the ten thousand armed monster’s (Abhinivesha’s) heart, the demon’s essence appears one final time, pleading for The Divine Mother to stop, indicating how unrelentingly one clings because of this klesha. However no upadhi can last truly till the end before The Devi’s Sword Of Knowledge (Gnana). Finally as The Divine Mother Slays him, only shumbha is left all alone, stripped of all the false things that he has identified himself with all along. With no other support shumbha, the false self has to battle it out alone.