> Unwound the triple cord of mind and freed > The heavenly wideness of a Godhead's gaze. Incidentally, in the ancient scriptures (there are references on the Internet) the triple cord are referred to as the three Granthis : Rudra, Brahma and Vishnu. They are supposed to be located at the Chakras as follows. 1) brahma - muladhara 2) vishnu - heart 3) rudra - ajna Sri Aurobindo and the Mother never referred to the triple cord as Granthis. It is Nolini below who gives us the clue to the correspondence of the triple cord with the Granthis. The triple cord is described in Secret of the Veda, Hymns to the Atris

So too when the seer of the house of Atri cries high to Agni, "O Agni, O Priest of the offering, loose from us the cords", he is using not only a natural, but a richly laden image. He is thinking of the triple cord of mind, nerves and body by which the soul is bound as a' victim in the great world-sacrifice, the sacrifice of the Purusha; he is thinking of the force of the divine Will already awakened and at work within him, a fiery and irresistible godhead that shall uplift his oppressed divinity and cleave asunder the cords of its bondage; he is thinking of the might of that growing Strength and inner Flame which receiving all that he has to offer carries it to its own distant and difficult home, to the high-seated Truth, to the Far, to the Secret, to the Supreme.

The Mother talks about them in Some Answers From The Mother Volume-16, Series Eleven

The cords symbolise the limitations of the mind; and there are three of them because there is a physical mind, a vital mind and a mental mind.

Nolini also describes them in Vol 4 of his works in an article called the Triple Cord

The three cords are the three limitations of being and con­sciousness in the normal human creature. There is a wall or barrier up in the mind which shuts out the higher levels of consciousness that are beyond the mind – the worlds of vision and revelation, of the Truth and the Vast. The middle knot shuts out the world around and abroad and limits the being to the ego, prevents the individual person from communicating with the Universal Being and Consciousness. It is the well­ known knot of the heart – hrdayagranthi – the crux and kernel of the egoistic consciousness. It centres the whole being on itself, limits it to itself, does not let it go out of itself to belong to the world-being. It is also the pull that prevents the being from diving down into its true personality, the psychic, and finding its union with the inner Divine. This egocentred knot has to be cut through and the thread to be scattered into the infinity of the deepest and of the widest being. The last barrier at the base of the human consciousness is the hard crust of the physical and the material being. It is closed to the regions behind, the occult sources of all external movements.