user8157: I read the following (here) on the internet:

Not able to take on the Jīva (stand/robe of the Arahats, eg. right view, leaving home), what should/can a house/stand-maintainer expect to validate holy in his ways?

The Pali suttas say:

And what, bhikkhus, are the fruits of the holy life? The fruit of
stream-entry, the fruit of once-returning, the fruit of nonreturning,
the fruit of arahantship. These are called the fruits of the holy
life. SN 45.39

The Pali suttas also refer to householders reaching stream-entry, once-returning & non-returning.
Therefore, can a layperson/householder live the Holy Life (Brahmacariya) according to the Lord Buddha?

user254: According to this answer and its references I decided that, when the word "holy life" is used in the suttas, it's used to mean "a monk's life" or "life spent in fellowship with other monks" ... which means keep the rules of the Vinaya.
Saying that "stream-entry is consequent to the holy life" plus "laypeople can enter the stream" doesn't change that definition, doesn't logically contradict it. And the full quote from SN 45.39 mentions arahants also.
I don't know where Anagarika might fit in that definition (who, according to Wikipedia, "are full-time residents at the vihara where they ordained") -- I don't know that they're mentioned in the suttas at all.
As for the final question, refer to SN 45.2 -- it was addressed to Ananda (a monk).
I think that's how the word is used, in the suttas.

user471: To a certain extent, yes.
The practice of meditation and attainment of jhana is also recommended to lay followers, as seen below.

Then Anathapindika the householder, surrounded by about 500 lay
followers, went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down
to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said
to him, “Householder, you have provided the community of monks with
robes, alms food, lodgings, & medicinal requisites for the sick, but
you shouldn’t rest content with the thought, ‘We have provided the
community of monks with robes, alms food, lodgings, & medicinal
requisites for the sick.’ So you should train yourself, ‘Let’s
periodically enter & remain in seclusion & rapture.’ That’s how you
should train yourself.”
AN 5.176

Lay followers can attain stream entry and higher levels of jhana. An example is Citta.

“But how is a wise lay follower defined?”
“It’s when a lay follower is wise. They have the wisdom of arising and
passing away which is noble, penetrative, and leads to the complete
ending of suffering. Then they’re considered to be a wise lay
follower.”
SN 55.37

Citta is a famous lay householder who has even taught monks, for example, in SN 41.1, SN 41.5 and SN 41.7.
The monks he taught, stated:

“You’re fortunate, householder, so very fortunate, to traverse the
Buddha’s deep teachings with the eye of wisdom.”
SN 41.1

In SN 41.8, he states that he has achieved mastery of the fourth rupa jhana.
SN 41, called Cittavagga, contains 10 suttas dedicated to the life of Citta.
Finally, a lay follower can even attain arahantship, but most likely only on their deathbed.

If they reply, ‘I have done so,’ they should say: ‘Good sir, the
Brahmā realm is impermanent, not lasting, and included within
identity. It would be good to turn your mind away from the Brahmā
realm and apply it to the cessation of identity.’
If they reply, ‘I have done so,’ then there is no difference between a
lay follower whose mind is freed in this way and a mendicant whose
mind is freed from defilements; that is, between the freedom of one
and the other.”
SN 55.54


user23550: One can to an extent;

"And through this line of reasoning one may know how admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie is actually the whole of the holy life: It is in dependence on me as an admirable friend that beings subject to birth have gained release from birth, that beings subject to aging have gained release from aging, that beings subject to death have gained release from death, that beings subject to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair have gained release from sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. It is through this line of reasoning that one may know how admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie is actually the whole of the holy life."SN45.2


“There is not any householder, Vaccha, who, not getting rid of the householder's fetter(s), at the breaking up of the body is an end-maker of ill.” MN71


But has the good Gotama even one layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, a Brahma-farer who, by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore) is of spontaneous uprising, one who has attained nibbāna there and is not liable to return from that world?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but far more are those layfollowers, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, Brahma-farers (brahmacārino), who by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore), are of spontaneous uprising, those who have attained nibbāna there and are not liable to return from that world.”
But has the good Gotama even one layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, and who, (though) an enjoyer of sense-pleasures, is a doer of the instruction, one who accepts the exhortation, who has crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fares in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but far more are these layfollowers, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, and who, (though) enjoyers of sense-pleasures are doers of the instruction, those who accept the exhortation, who have crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fare in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others.”
But has the good Gotama even one woman layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, a Brahma-farer who, by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore), is of spontaneous uprising, one who has attained nibbāna there and is not liable to return from that world?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but many more are those women layfollowers, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, Brahma-farers who, by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore), are of spontaneous uprising, those who have attained nibbāna there and are not liable to return from that world.”
But has the good Gotama even one woman layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, and who, (though) an enjoyer of sense-pleasures, is a doer of the instruction, one who accepts the exhortation, who has crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fares in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but many more are those women layfollowers, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, and who, (though) enjoyers of sense-pleasures, are doers of the instruction, those who accept the exhortation, who have crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fare in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others.” mn73


8157: <p>I read the following (<a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/46814/8157">here</a>) on the internet:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Not able to take on the Jīva (stand/robe of the Arahats, eg. right view, leaving home), what should/can a house/stand-maintainer expect to validate holy in his ways?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The Pali suttas say:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>And what, bhikkhus, are the fruits of the holy life? The fruit of
stream-entry, the fruit of once-returning, the fruit of nonreturning,
the fruit of arahantship. These are called the fruits of the holy
life. SN 45.39</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The Pali suttas also refer to householders reaching stream-entry, once-returning &amp; non-returning.</p>
<p>Therefore, can a layperson/householder live the Holy Life (<a href="https://suttacentral.net/define/brahmacariya" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Brahmacariya</a>) according to the Lord Buddha?</p>
 254: <p>According to <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/36725/254">this answer</a> and its references I decided that, when the word &quot;holy life&quot; is used in the suttas, it's used to mean &quot;a monk's life&quot; or &quot;life spent in fellowship with other monks&quot; ... which means keep the rules of the Vinaya.</p>
<p>Saying that &quot;stream-entry is consequent to the holy life&quot; plus &quot;laypeople can enter the stream&quot; doesn't change that definition, doesn't logically contradict it. And the full quote from SN 45.39 mentions arahants also.</p>
<p>I don't know where Anagarika might fit in that definition (who, according to Wikipedia, &quot;are full-time residents at the vihara where they ordained&quot;) -- I don't know that they're mentioned in the suttas at all.</p>
<p>As for the final question, refer to SN 45.2 -- it was addressed to Ananda (a monk).</p>
<p>I think that's how the word is used, in the suttas.</p>
 471: <p>To a certain extent, yes.</p>
<p>The practice of meditation and attainment of jhana is also recommended to lay followers, as seen below.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Then Anathapindika the <strong>householder</strong>, surrounded by about 500 <strong>lay
followers</strong>, went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down
to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said
to him, “Householder, you have provided the community of monks with
robes, alms food, lodgings, &amp; medicinal requisites for the sick, but
you shouldn’t rest content with the thought, ‘We have provided the
community of monks with robes, alms food, lodgings, &amp; medicinal
requisites for the sick.’ So you should train yourself, ‘Let’s
periodically enter &amp; remain in seclusion &amp; rapture.’ That’s how you
should train yourself.”<br />
<a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.176.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AN 5.176</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Lay followers can attain stream entry and higher levels of jhana. An example is Citta.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“But how is a wise lay follower defined?”</p>
<p>“It’s when a lay follower is wise. They have the wisdom of arising and
passing away which is noble, penetrative, and leads to the complete
ending of suffering. Then they’re considered to be a wise lay
follower.”<br />
<a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn55.37/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 55.37</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Citta is a famous lay householder who has even taught monks, for example, in <a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn41.1/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 41.1</a>, <a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn41.5/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 41.5</a> and <a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn41.7/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 41.7</a>.</p>
<p>The monks he taught, stated:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“You’re fortunate, <strong>householder</strong>, so very fortunate, to traverse the
Buddha’s deep teachings with the eye of wisdom.”<br />
<a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn41.1/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 41.1</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In <a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn41.8/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 41.8</a>, he states that he has achieved mastery of the fourth rupa jhana.</p>
<p><a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn41-cittavagga" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 41</a>, called Cittavagga, contains 10 suttas dedicated to the life of Citta.</p>
<p>Finally, a lay follower can even attain arahantship, but most likely only on their deathbed.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If they reply, ‘I have done so,’ they should say: ‘Good sir, the
Brahmā realm is impermanent, not lasting, and included within
identity. It would be good to turn your mind away from the Brahmā
realm and apply it to the cessation of identity.’</p>
<p>If they reply, ‘I have done so,’ then there is <strong>no difference</strong> between a
lay follower whose mind is freed in this way and a mendicant whose
mind is freed from defilements; that is, between the freedom of one
and the other.”<br />
<a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn55.54/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 55.54</a></p>
</blockquote>
 23550: <p>One can to an extent;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&quot;And through this line of reasoning one may know how admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie is actually the whole of the holy life: It is in dependence on me as an admirable friend that <strong>beings</strong> subject to birth have gained release from birth, that beings subject to aging have gained release from aging, that beings subject to death have gained release from death, that beings subject to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, &amp; despair have gained release from sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, &amp; despair. It is through this line of reasoning that one may know how admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie is actually the whole of the holy life.&quot;<a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn45/sn45.002.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN45.2</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>“There is not any householder, Vaccha, who, not getting rid of the householder's fetter(s), at the breaking up of the body is an end-maker of ill.” <a href="https://suttacentral.net/mn71/en/horner?reference=none&amp;highlight=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MN71</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>But has the good Gotama even one layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, a Brahma-farer who, by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore) is of spontaneous uprising, one who has attained nibbāna there and is not liable to return from that world?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but <strong>far more are those layfollowers</strong>, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, <strong>Brahma-farers (brahmacārino)</strong>, who by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore), are of spontaneous uprising, those who have attained nibbāna there and are not liable to return from that world.”</p>
<p>But has the good Gotama even one layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, and who, (though) an enjoyer of sense-pleasures, is a doer of the instruction, one who accepts the exhortation, who has crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fares in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but far more are these layfollowers, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, and who, (though) enjoyers of sense-pleasures are doers of the instruction, those who accept the exhortation, who have crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fare in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others.”</p>
<p>But has the good Gotama even one woman layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, a Brahma-farer who, by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore), is of spontaneous uprising, one who has attained nibbāna there and is not liable to return from that world?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but many more are those women layfollowers, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, Brahma-farers who, by the utter destruction of the five fetters binding to this lower (shore), are of spontaneous uprising, those who have attained nibbāna there and are not liable to return from that world.”</p>
<p>But has the good Gotama even one woman layfollower who is a disciple, a householder clothed in white, and who, (though) an enjoyer of sense-pleasures, is a doer of the instruction, one who accepts the exhortation, who has crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fares in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others?” “Not merely a hundred, Vaccha, nor two, three, four or five hundred, but many more are those women layfollowers, disciples of mine, householders clothed in white, and who, (though) enjoyers of sense-pleasures, are doers of the instruction, those who accept the exhortation, who have crossed over doubt and, perplexity gone, fare in the Teacher's instruction, won to conviction, not relying on others.” <a href="https://suttacentral.net/mn73/en/horner?reference=none&amp;highlight=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mn73</a></p>
</blockquote>
