O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail about the appearance and disappearance of all living entities, as well as Your inexhaustible glories.

Arjuna acknowledges the cosmic sweep of what he has received: creation and dissolution, the origin and end of all beings, and the inexhaustible glories catalogued in Chapter 10. He addresses Krishna as "lotus-eyed" — a term of deepest tenderness. But now, having heard, he wants to see.