Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4

Sanskrit:

स आत्मन्युत्थितं मन्युमात्मजायात्मना प्रभु: ।अशीशमद् यथा वह्निं स्वयोन्या वारिणात्मभू: ॥ ४ ॥

ITRANS:

sa ātmany utthitam manyumātmajāyātmanā prabhuḥaśīśamad yathā vahniṁsva-yonyā vāriṇātma-bhūḥ

Translation:

Though anger toward his son was now rising within his heart, Lord Brahmā was able to subdue it by applying his intelligence, in the same way that fire is extinguished by its own product, water.

Purport:

Lord Brahmā is sometimes affected by his contact with the mode of passion. But because he is ādi-kavi, the firstborn and foremost learned scholar in the universe, when anger begins to disturb his mind he can control it by means of discriminating self-examination. In this instance he reminded himself that Bhṛgu was his son. Thus in this verse Śukadeva Gosvāmī draws the analogy that Brahmā’s own expansion (his son) served to put out his anger just as water, which originally evolved from elemental fire in the primeval creation, puts out a fire.