The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 229

p. 229

ये यथा वान्तमश्नन्ति बाला नित्यमभूतये ।

In plain words

Like small children who keep swallowing back what they have already thrown up, and it does them nothing but harm —

Close to the Sanskrit

Those who — as children constantly eat what has been vomited, to their own ruin —