Within Shaktism, karma is fully affirmed as the law of cause and effect that shapes experience and rebirth, yet it is always viewed through the primacy of the Divine Mother. All karmic processes are understood as operating through Shakti, the dynamic feminine power that animates the cosmos. The pleasures and pains of life, as well as birth and death, are seen as expressions of Her energy and as instruments through which beings evolve. In this vision, the Divine Mother is both the creative force that generates karmic circumstances and the sustaining presence that allows beings to act and reap the fruits of those actions.

At the level of individual life, Shaktism affirms personal responsibility: each jiva is bound by its own karma, and ethical conduct, devotion, and self-discipline shape future experience. Actions rooted in attachment and wrongdoing generate demeritorious karma, while righteous and devotional actions generate meritorious karma and help purify the mind. Yet this moral order is not viewed as mechanical; it is held within the compassionate oversight of the Divine Mother, who maintains cosmic balance and karmic justice as part of Her role in the universe.

A distinctive emphasis falls on the transformative power of devotion and Tantric practice directed toward the Divine Mother. Through mantra, ritual worship, and other forms of sadhana, practitioners seek to work consciously with Shakti to purify karmic impressions and remove obstacles. Such practices are understood not merely as ritual observances but as ways of aligning one’s inner tendencies with the Mother’s will, allowing negative karma to be softened, exhausted more swiftly, or turned into a means of spiritual maturation.

Central to this perspective is the belief in the Mother’s grace (kripa), which can transcend ordinary karmic limitations. While karma must bear fruit, sincere surrender and intense devotion are said to “burn” or neutralize vast stores of negative karma, loosening the bonds that tie the soul to samsara. Ultimately, liberation is described as the realization of one’s identity with Shakti or Brahman, where the true Self is seen as ever-free and untouched by karma. For the liberated devotee, any remaining karmic momentum may continue to unfold at the level of body and mind, but it no longer binds the realized being, who abides in the freedom granted by the Divine Mother’s own nature.