Fame Finders Magazine put Dr Sanjay Sarda on the cover of its January 2026 edition. Its cover story reads his life as a mountain climb, and the lessons it draws from the Bhagavad Gita and from his own turn away from corporate life hold well beyond the year they were written for.
Fame Finders opened its January 2026 edition, themed Moving Ahead for a Better 2026, with Dr Sanjay Sarda on the cover. Its cover story sets his life against a fitting image: a Himalayan ascent. The summit is not a title or a milestone but self-actualisation, the point at which a person becomes who they were meant to be. The magazine casts him as a climber whose terrain is inner rather than physical. That suits a man whose path has run from the boardroom to music, healing, mentorship and spiritual inquiry, one deliberate step at a time.
The mountain as mirror
A mountain tests more than strength. It asks for clarity, discipline, patience and inner alignment, and no one reaches the top by imagining it. The climb is made in single, mindful steps. Dr Sarda’s life has followed the same rule. He has never looked for shortcuts.
The tools he carried, and the climb he chose
Every climber depends on equipment. The cover story likens skills and talents to ice axes, harnesses and carabiners, the things that hold you on slippery ground. Dr Sarda had plenty. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from BIT and a postgraduate qualification from IIM, and he spent years in senior corporate leadership. In 2014 he chose a different route, leaving corporate life for a personal journey into music and healing.
The right gear matters as well, and in life that gear is a set of choices: healthy habits, supportive relationships, disciplined routines and surroundings that lift rather than drain. None of these removes hardship. They make it possible to come through it.
What to leave behind
A pack that grows too heavy will stop even the strongest climber. Most of us carry ego, negativity, doubt and old fears without noticing the weight. Dr Sarda’s own ascent required setting these down. He found that letting go was a release rather than a loss.
Effort without attachment
At the centre of his approach is a principle from the Bhagavad Gita, Karmanye Vadhikaraste: our right is to the action alone, never to its fruits. A climber watches the step beneath his feet, not the summit. Dr Sarda works the same way, with sincerity and purpose and without anxiety over outcomes. For him, progress comes from full effort carried without pressure.
Mind, intelligence and the inner chariot
The Gita also sets out an inner hierarchy, with the mind above the body and intelligence above the mind. Desires behave like wild horses. Left to themselves, they pull in every direction. Held by the mind and guided by intelligence, they become purposeful, as Arjuna’s chariot did with Krishna at the reins.
Base camp is comfortable, but growth lies higher up. His turn towards music, healing and spirituality is that hierarchy in practice: intention over impulse, with energy directed into creation, service and inner growth.
Footprints and weather
Mountains keep a record of every step, and so does life. The cover story frames this as the law of karma. Each action leaves an imprint, each imprint shapes the next experience, and each experience becomes a fresh start. A slip calls for adjustment and a wrong turn for retracing, but the mountain teaches rather than punishes.
The weather changes too. The Gita’s three gunas describe the weather within us:
- Tamas: the fog of inertia and confusion.
- Rajas: the wind of restlessness.
- Sattva: the clear sky of clarity and harmony.
The aim is not to deny the first two but to recognise them and keep choosing sattva.
The safety rope
Every climber is roped in against a fall. For Dr Sarda, that rope is spirituality and bhakti, a steady connection with the Divine that grew from his study of the Vedic scriptures. He puts it in modern terms: “Spirituality is the Wi-Fi of the soul.” Without that connection, the climb is fragile.
The summit
In this telling, the summit is a state of being. It is the quiet joy of having climbed with integrity, grown through adversity, honoured an inner calling and become who you were meant to be. Dr Sarda’s life, spanning corporate leadership, music therapy, mentorship and spiritual exploration, serves as a working map for that climb. The cover story was written to open a new year, but its message is not tied to one. The road is not easy, and the climb is worth making.
This article draws on the cover story of Fame Finders Magazine’s January 2026 edition (Vol 01, Issue 08, pages 14 to 18). Read the magazine at magazine.famefinders.in.