If we can never understand Vedic cosmology what is the need of studying it?

Also, when Brahma has created the universe, why does the Bhagavatam say that even he cannot understand the structure of the universe?

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If we cannot understand Vedic cosmology as it is ultimately given in the Vedic scriptures, then what is the purpose of studying it so much? And then what is the purpose of having it depicted in the planetarium also? If ultimately we are going to stay ignorant of what it actually means. And if Brahmaji himself has created this universe, then how can it be said that even Brahma cannot understand the structure of the universe? Answer? Firstly, there are different kinds of ignorances.
We can classify the various ignorances into three broad kinds. I am not referring to this from a philosophical perspective of the various kinds of layers of ignorance that are described in the Vedic scriptures. I am talking about it from the attitudes of people towards what they are ignorant about.
So, with respect to Vedic cosmology, there can be sceptical ignorance, there can be pious ignorance and there can be reverential ignorance. So, sceptical ignorance means there are many people who many scientists or people who claim to be scientifically minded, who just dismiss the Vedic cosmology as pre-scientific mythology. So, then there are many pious Hindus who have a sort of cultural or official respect for the sacred scriptures and they nominally respect whatever is given in those scriptures, whether they may not actually understand or believe in it also.
And then there are devotees who study the Vedic cosmology and then they understand how deep and profound it is. So, for example, if you study the Vedic cosmography and the mysteries of the sacred universe, books written by R. L. Thomson, Siddhartha Prabhu, and especially if we understand the four models of the universe that he has talked about, the planisphere model, the Bhu Mandal model, then all these models if we study, then actually we can understand how there is so much profound coherence in that knowledge, how much there is, there is meaning and validity to what is given over there, although we may not have the intellectual capacity to understand it fully. So, as devotees, when we study this, our purpose is to move from the second, at least to move from the second to third kind of ignorance.
So, that means from the point of view of the ignorance in which there is a pious nominal respect to where there is educated reverential respect. Yes, it will require a lifetime of study to actually understand Vedic cosmology and till I understand it, if I choose to understand it, then I will have to spend a lifetime. If it is not for me to understand it, I have many other services to do and at least I understand that this is not something I need to be embarrassed about or I need to be doubtful about.
There is a profound body of knowledge there, which can be, which is intellectually defensible, intelligible and even respectable. So, as devotees, when we present Krishna, present the Vedic cosmology whenever it is required, it is primarily meant to raise people from the levels of ignorance, where there is a skeptical ignorance or just nominal superficial respect to reverential educated respect. That is the purpose for which we study the cosmology.
And secondly, regarding how can Brahmaji not know what is the structure of the universe when he has created it himself. Actually, the Bhagavatam itself is described in the second canto when Brahmaji is speaking to Narada Muni that I am actually simply creating what has already been created and he used the example of a beej. That when a gardener gets a seed, the gardener waters the seed and after watering the seed, the seed grows and it develops into a tree.
Now, the gardener or the farmer does not know everything about the seed. He just knows enough to transform the seed into a tree and get the fruits. He does not know how the seed was created.
He does not know the intricate internal utility of the seed. He does not know the technical finenesses of the process involved by which the tree germinates and grows. But he just utilizes the process.
So, Brahmaji is telling Narada Muni that actually my role in creation as a secondary creator is that the Lord gives the templates and I develop the templates by doing the necessary activities. But I do not produce the templates and I do not even know how the templates fully develop. That is why even Brahmaji does not understand the model of the universe as given from the Puranic perspective properly or fully.
He does understand it much much better than us. But even he does not