The best way to rise above consequences of thought and action is to cease thinking and acting for the sake of one's own gain, or with even the subtly selfish afterthought of wishing to get rid of the judgment. With the Oglala Indians causality is a universal principle, a law of necessity, to be respected by even the highest divine being. Because all power to act, move, or change has been granted by him, all causes originate in this highest divine being, a manifested aspect of the Great Spirit or Great Unknowable on all cosmic levels. Causality is logically linked with the acting, moving principle and with power and energy. Action is the literal meaning of both karma and Skan.
Causality is also one with universal justice, personified as a divine judge.
As all energy and power come from the divine being who also has jurisdiction over its use, and as the divine is the essence of every being and nothing can be done outside universal and natural moral laws, it seems that no action can ever take place without the involvement of the divine being. Causes necessarily work out their effects and cannot be counteracted. The effects are the responsibility of the actors, according to the logic of universal justice. The divine sends its representatives, created from himself, to live in man as the higher soul and as compassion. Thus the divine actor and judge is at the same time separate from and involved in created cosmic manifestation.