Externally they are shabby like reeds and fuel but intrinsically they are like flowers, (or their burnt reeds and fuel are as good as a bunch of jatu flowers). Would that I were to die in my longing for these holy men, who have flowers printed on their patch-work quilts! So far appearances go, they are definitely unprepossessing, but basically they are precious gems.
Note: These ascetics are quite immune to external conditions and appearances. They are mindful of their spiritual progress only. They are typical ‘malamatis’.

Their burnt wood and sticks are bright like jasmine flowers,
I long for those ascetics whose quilt are full of eternal bowers,
Peerless gems within, ugly are their outward forms.