Alexandr Korol

another world is being described there. So, this describes the second world, its first part, and it also has a second part. “The second and subsequent antarakalpas. After the war ends, those who survived will emerge from their shelters and become less aggressive, getting accustomed to good deeds. As they grow used to a virtuous life and renounce vices, lifespan will increase, health and prosperity will improve, and the population will grow. Over a long period, lifespan will gradually rise from ten to 80,000 years, and then a chakravartin king named Sankha will appear once again. During his reign, the Bodhisattva of that time will descend from the Tushita heaven and be born under the name Ajita, will become a śramaṇa, and will attain full enlightenment as the Buddha — this will be the Buddha Maitreya. After the departure of Maitreya, the world will again deteriorate and events will begin to repeat — the lifespan will once again decrease and drop to 10 years. Each antarakalpa ends with a destructive war, moral decline, and the savagery of people; a new one begins with the rise of morality, and the flourishing of civilization occurs in the middle of the antarakalpa. After the 19th antarakalpa, the lifespan will increase to 80,000 years and will not decrease again because the entire Vivartasthāyikalpa will have come to an end.” This concludes the description of the second world. Next comes the third, if I’m not mistaken — Samvartakalpa. “Samvartakalpa begins when morality is high enough, and gradually beings stop being reborn in the hells. Then the hells become empty, followed by the realms of pretas, animals, then humans, and after that — the asuras and the gods.
Then births in the worlds of Brahma cease as well, and in the very end, only the Great Brahma remains. Eventually, the Great Fire comes and burns everything, including the throne of the Great Brahma, emptying all worlds below Abhasvara. When this occurs, the Samvartasthāyikalpa begins.
The meaning of the Samvartakalpa is that human beings, during the period of flourishing, no longer choose the path of degradation and ascend to higher worlds, rising higher and higher to the Sphere of Forms and Abhasvara. In the end, all beings are saved there.
According to some Buddhist texts, the deepest hells do not completely disappear, and by the time the universe ends, the beings from these hells are transferred to serve their punishment in other worlds.