The purpose of understanding I feel is to help you let go/digest/dissolve/transcend the thing.
Otherwise the understanding is not taking you in the right direction, if it only increases the holding of it.
True solution is dissolution (David Hawkins).
I see understanding as the tool to catalyze the dissolution.
Understanding should carry you back to the state of wonder with greater fluidity and openness.
An endless revelation
Journey to the Abstract 