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on PAGE TWENTY EIGHT Sayadaw points out that even the Buddha suffered from the possession of the five aggregates (he had back pain, for one thing).  He quotes from the Samanabrhamana Sutra, a twist on the Four Noble Truths by the Buddha on the end of formation:

Bhikkus, those ascetics or Brahmins who do not understand aging and death, who do not understand aging and death's origin, who do not understand aging and death's cessation, the way leading to aging and death's cessatioin, who do not understand the (12 links of causation), these I do not consider ascetics among ascetics..... etc.

I recall pictures of yogis on the wall of the recreated Dalai Lamas' training room at the Rubin Museum.  Just regular guys, more important than any specially hatted lama.