If I was with God and chose to come to take on experiences and learn lessons, why should I being a soul (JivAtma) that is part of the whole (ParamAtma) choose to live life in only one body and not many simultaneously? Is this the reason I came across a Nadi carrying my name, my parent's name, number of siblings, and career all told right but the name of my wife was that of another? It is said that we are made in the same image amounting to seven. How do we explain these? Was this a parallel life that I was living?
If I was a part of the whole, then I am also in every Tom, Dick, and Harry, living a life and taking on the experiences of this very moment in everyone. In this sense, if we feed another we're feeding ourselves. If we injure another we're hurting ourselves, right? This means that the One, that is whole has taken on all forms in creation and assimilated these experiences for itself using individual forms and names as in us and others. What a game it is. Is this what Maya is all about? Manifestations of the One and the whole.
This and other questions are in need of an answer. For instance how far do we intervene in other's Karma? In carrying our baggage of Karma, each time we cross paths with another we are either shedding or adding on to our load. So is it with others. In the event we extend a helping hand how much do we do? Where do we draw the line? Most of the professions and businesses too are constantly engaging in saving lives and changing the living standards of others by providing housing, food, clothing, education, etc. In providing these we are helping to extend the life span of people as in the former and improve their living standards as in the latter. This is what Agathiyar too has spelled out in his 5 tenets to mankind listing his purpose here. Then we have another ideology of sitting back and just watching the world and its affairs go by. Some saints advocate this. So do we follow in the footsteps of Mother Teresa and help others or sit back and mind our own business? If it was not for the Siddhas pleading to Lord Shiva to allow them to reveal the divine secrets behind the machinery of creation and its sustenance, who would we turn to to escape the time loop and the web that we have spun for ourselves? These are grey areas that are not answered as yet.