Verse 28

यो हि मुख्यं परित्यज्य गौणं समनुधावति ।त्यक्त्वा रसायनं सिद्धं साध्यं संसाधयत्यसौ

In plain words

He who, abandoning the chief, chases after the secondary, has cast away an elixir already made, to labour again at what is still to be made.