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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 18]
from the clutches of birth and death. In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said that simply by understanding the transcendental nature of God one can go back home, back to Godhead. But demons and atheistic persons do not try to understand the nature of the Supreme Lord; therefore they remain in the entanglement of birth and death.
TEXT 11
एते वयं न्यासहरा रसौकसां 
  गतद्वियो गदया द्रावितास्ते । 
  तिष्ठामहेऽथापि कथञ्चिदाजौ 
  स्थेयं क्व यामो बलिनोत्पाद्य वैरम् ॥११॥
ete vayam nyāsa-harā rasaukasām 
  gata-hriyo gadayā drāvitās te 
  tiṣṭhāmahe 'thāpi kathañcid ājau 
  stheyam kva yāmo balinotpādya vairam
ete—ourselves; vayam—we; nyāsa—of the charge; harāḥ—thieves; rasā-okasām—of the inhabitants of Rasātala; gata-hriyaḥ—shameless; gadayā—by the mace; drāvitāḥ—chased; te—your; tiṣṭhāmahe—We shall stay; atha api—nevertheless; kathañcit—somehow; ājau—on the battlefield; stheyam—We must stay; kva—where; yāmaḥ—can We go; balinā—with a powerful enemy; utpādya—having created; vairam—enmity.
TRANSLATION
Certainly We have stolen the charge of the inhabitants of Rasātala and have lost all shame. Although bitten by your powerful mace, I shall nevertheless stay here in the water for some time because, having created enmity with a powerful enemy, I now have no place to go.
PURPORT
The demon should have known that God cannot be driven out of any place because He is all-pervading. Demons think of their possessions as their property, but actually everything belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can take anything at any time He likes.