4 November 2012 - QA 5

Dakshinamurthy (an aspect of Shiva as a Guru) is said to be Samavedapriya (one who likes the Samaveda). Why is it so?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: It must have been written by people who are associated with the Samaveda. If people from the Rig Veda write it, they would call it Rig vedapriya. People associated with the Yajur Veda will say that it is the greatest of all Vedas. Lord Krishna has said ‘Vedanamsamavedosmi’ (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 10, Verse 22). It is because the Samaveda gives importance to devotion and music.
In the two hemispheres of the brain, the left is logic and the right is music. Since the Samaveda contains both logic and music, it is possible that these words came from there.