According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.

— Deepak Chopra on Synchronicity

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous." in the context of "Deepak Chopra, as quoted in Stop Worrying, Start Living : A Guide for the Spiritual Worrier/Warrior (2012) by Caroline Ravenall, p. 303" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Deepak Chopra

About Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra (दीपक चोपड़ा; born October 22, 1946) is a medical doctor born in India, and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. He claims to be influenced by the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India, and quantum physics. He also said that he has been profoundly influenced by the teachings of J Krishnamurti. His teachings have had a profound influence on the The New Thought Movement which has embraced him in the U.S.