nature – here [in the correspondent’s dream] it seems tied up – i.e. under control but not eliminated. But it is not clear to what it refers – if it is symbolic at all.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume III - Part 2
Fragment ID: 12566
A buffalo conveys the idea often of an obscure violence in the nature – here [in the correspondent’s dream] it seems tied up – i.e. under control but not eliminated. But it is not clear to what it refers – if it is symbolic at all.