An assembly of seekers of the Truth who gather around a spiritual teacher for reflection on the ancient wisdom. Sanskrit sat is also seen in Ghandi’s satyagraha ‘truth force’, bodhisattva ‘one whose essence is enlightenment’, from sattvam ‘essence, being’, and sattva ‘harmoniousness, peacefulness, composure’.

The PIE base *sont- is also the root of archaic sooth ‘real, true’, soothsayer, originally ‘one who speaks the truth’, and soothe, originally ‘to prove or show (a fact, statement, etc.) to be true’. Today, the main meaning of soothsayer is ‘one who claims to be able to foretell events or predict the future; a seer’, like a prophet, someone who speaks from the Divine, and sooth has come to mean ‘to quiet, calm, comfort’, implicitly by stating the truth that sets us free.