When the Institute was formed in the year 1949 in the month of June/July, C. S. Shastri, a noted Chartered Accountant of Madras went to Sri Aurobindo and requested him through a letter to give an emblem to the newly formed Institute of which he was an elected member from the South… Sri Aurobindo gave him the emblem with a Garuda in the centre and a quotation from the Upanishad: Yah esa suptesu jagarti, that person who is awake in those that sleep.
The emblem was placed at the first meeting of the Council of the Institute in New Delhi sometime in June/July, 1949 and was accepted amongst many other emblems placed by other members of the Council. So, that became the emblem of the Chartered Accountants of India. Very few people know about it and most of the Chartered Accountants do not know it.
