No, absolutely not. But he may be perceived as such, and there’s a difference. There doesn’t seem to be a difference, but there is. In fact, the more of an egotistical ahole you are yourself, the more likely you are to perceive an enlightened person as an egotistical ahole.

People for whom there is still a difference between “I can be an egotistical ahole sometimes” and ”others can see me as an egotistical ahole”, however slight that difference is, aren’t enlightened, not yet. Enlightened people don’t see themselves, they can only see how others see them. And it depends on every particular individual they speak to, not them.

It is not to say that they cannot, to a certain extent, affect how others see them. If it’s important to me that you don’t see me as an egotistical a**hole, in the context of whatever it is I’m doing, I will do my best to not appear this way to you. It’s not flawless, I can’t read your mind directly, but every time you speak you will give me direct knowledge of how you see the world whether you want it or not. So the more you speak, the easier it is for me to come off the way you want me to be, if I want to cooperate with you. If I don’t care to cooperate with you, I can come off as anything you like. Your imagination is the only limit here, and there’s no limit to imagination.

In the context of spirituality and any kind of teaching, there is no cooperation and there cannot be, because ego loves to connect, validate and get validation. So if your master never comes off as an egotistical a**hole to you, he is probably not a true master, or you are not yet at the point where this is productive, so he’s sparing you. If you go all the way, at some point you will hate your master, it’s unavoidable, but this is just your own self-hatred being uncovered by the master and projected onto him.