Swami Mukundananda
Why does good character include courtesy toward everyone, even the poor?
Maharana Pratap and the beggar
Being courteous and polite is a basic human nature that shows more as the heart is purified. Maharana Pratap, a great warrior king, showed it by bowing before a beggar.
He was walking in his kingdom when a beggar folded his hands and did Namaste. Maharana Pratap also folded his hands, bowed his head and did Namaste to the beggar.