The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 211

p. 211

यच्चान्यथात्वं द्विज याति भूयो न तत्तथा तस्य कुतो हि तत्त्वम् ॥

In plain words

And whatever keeps turning into something else, brāhmaṇa — that thing is no longer as it was. Where would its reality come from?

Close to the Sanskrit

And that which, O twice-born, goes again into otherness — that is not thus; of that, whence indeed is reality?